~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 1
SAA 01 100. Counting Timber after a Fire (ABL 0092)
(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-ṣill-E[šarra]. Ešarra is well, the temples are well, the Inner City is well, Assyria is well, may the king, my lord, be well! May Aššur and Mullissu bless the king, my lord! (9) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: 'Count the intact beams and write me!", (11) I have just written down the numbers of the beams and am sending them herewith to the king, my lord: 372 heavy beams, 808 second-size, 2,313 third-size, 11,807 fourth-size, in all 15,290 sound ones, plus 13,157 damaged or burnt. (Six illegible lines) (r 5) ...] I transferred the [beams…
Daily Life·Economy
