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SAA 15 299. Sending People under Arrest to the King (CT 53 865)

SAA 15 300. Fugitives Returning Home (ABL 1412)

SAA 15 301. Going to the Palace (ABL 1436)

SAA 15 302. Going to the Palace (CT 53 207)

SAA 15 303. Inventory of People (CT 53 604)

SAA 15 304. Organizing a District (CT 53 934)

SAA 15 305. Encouraging Allies (CT 53 564)

SAA 15 306. Royal Order Quoted in a Letter (CT 53 362)

SAA 15 307. Fragment Referring to a Council of Magnates (CT 53 668)

SAA 15 308. Fragment Concerning Captives (CT 53 756)

SAA 15 309. Deportees Entrusted to a Bodyguard (CT 53 325)

SAA 15 310. Fragment Concerning Deportees(?) (CT 53 624)

SAA 15 311. Reviewing and Provisioning Deportees (CT 53 295)

SAA 15 312. Deportees (CT 53 518)

SAA 15 313. (no title) (CT 53 857)

SAA 15 314. Fragment Concerning Deportation and Cultivation of Fields (CT 53 580)

SAA 15 315. Fragment Concerning a Gardener (CT 53 447)

SAA 15 316. The Landed Property of a Prefect (CT 53 881)

SAA 15 317. Why Have You Cultivated so Few Fields? (ABL 1019)

SAA 15 318. Ploughing with Six Oxen (CT 53 209)

SAA 15 319. Fragment Referring to Harvest (CT 53 725)

SAA 15 320. Fragment Referring to Harvesting (CT 53 599)

SAA 15 321. Setting aside Barley Rations (CT 53 180)

SAA 15 322. Providing Barley Rations and Fodder (CT 53 301)

SAA 15 323. Issuing Barley Rations (CT 53 499)

SAA 15 324. Fragment Concerning Corn Rations and Oxen (CT 53 684)

SAA 15 325. Fragment Concerning Corn Rations and Camels (CT 53 685)

SAA 15 326. Fragment Concerning Straw (CT 53 706)

SAA 15 327. Fragment Concerning Straw (CT 53 707)

SAA 15 328. Fragment Concerning Seed Corn and Corn Rations (CT 53 927)

SAA 15 329. Fragment Concerning Grass and Straw (CT 53 786)

SAA 15 330. Providing Horses with Straw (CT 53 474)

SAA 15 331. Fragment Referring to Straw (CT 53 384)

SAA 15 332. Fragment Referring to Road Stations (CT 53 821)

SAA 15 333. Fragment Referring to Mule Express (CT 53 352)

SAA 15 334. Inventorying Horses (CT 53 526)

SAA 15 336. Fragment Referring to Cavalry (CT 53 845)

SAA 15 337. Fragment Referring to Mares (ABL 1270)

SAA 15 338. Fragment Mentioning Horses, Oxen and Sheep (CT 53 471)

SAA 15 339. Fragment Mentioning Sheep (CT 53 299)

SAA 15 340. Fragment Concerning Sheep (CT 53 549)

SAA 15 341. Inspecting the Fort and Clearing Canals (CT 53 228)

SAA 15 342. Coming for the Work Assignment (CT 53 431)

SAA 15 343. (no title)

SAA 15 344. Why Do You not Glaze Bricks? (CT 53 476)

SAA 15 345. What are You Doing? (CT 53 395)

SAA 15 346. Doing the Work (ABL 1441)

SAA 15 347. Fragment Concerning a Wall etc. (CT 53 640)

SAA 15 348. Limestone and Master Builders (CT 53 239)

SAA 15 349. Fragment Concerning Master Builders (CT 53 911)