SAA 19 170. Raising Food and Fodder from Desert Towns (CTN 5 p. 173; SAA 01 172)
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To [the king, my lord: yo]ur servant [Bel-duri]. | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | (3) The king, my lord, [gave orders]: "[All] gover[nors] may raise food and fodder from [Šamaš]-a[hu-idd]ina with you, and Adad-issiya (and) Bel-lešir are to support Abi-lešir!" | |
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | (9) They have not agreed to this though, but are disobedient, saying: "Why should our villages in the desert belong to all the governors? The villages are ... within each other!" | |
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | ||
| o 1313 | (13) The king, my lord, should sent word that they are to write down their desert villages. Ever since the king my lord has levied pack animals from Hamath, I have been on my own, and he (= Abi-lešir) and they (= Adad-issiya and Bel-lešir) have been [on their own]. Tomorrow the king [my lord] will surely kill me, saying: "You are but a bunch of do-nothings!" | |
| o 1414 | ||
| o 1515 | ||
| o 1616 | ||
| Bottom | ||
| b.e. 17b.e. 17 | ||
| b.e. 1818 | ||
| b.e. 1919 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | (r 3) The following is (my) bread and fodder per calendar month: 105 homers of fodder, 123 homers of bread, total 228 homers, Šamaš-ahu-iddina; 75 homers of fodder, 15 homers of bread, total 90 homers, Abi-lešir; 600 (homers of bread) of 2,000 full-time (lit. ‘free') (soldiers of the king) of Commagene. In all 918 homers a month, this household. | |
| r 44 | ša 01 ITI ⸢01⸣ me 05* ANŠE ⸢ki-su⸣-tú | |
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | 06 me ša 02 lim LÚv.za-ku-e | |
| r 99 | ||
| r 1010 | ||
| r 1111 | (r 11) The king my lord knows (the situation) of the road stations: we take care of three stretches while they take care of two stretches each. Now, the king my lord should know that they are reb[ell]ing (against this arrangement, while) we [...]. | |
| r 1212 | ||
| r 1313 | ||
| r 1414 | ||
| r 1515 | ||
| Right | ||
| r.e. 16r.e. 16 | ||
| r.e. 1717 | ⸢an⸣-ni-nu [x x x x x] |
Adapted from Mikko Luukko, The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud (State Archives of Assyria, 19), 2012. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/X190170/.