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  • SAA 01 011

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Details

  • Neo-Assyrian
  • Written ca. Sargon2.000.00.00
  • Kuyunjik (Nineveh)
  • Administrative Letter

Bibliography

SAA 01, 011

SAA 01 011. Building a Private Army (ABL 0304)[via saao/saa01]

Obverse
o 1o 1

a-bat LUGAL a-na mman-nukidIM

(1) The king's word to Mannu-ki-Adad:

o 22

01 lim 01 me 19 v.ERIM-MEŠ KALAG-MEŠ

(2) 1,119 able-bodied men all together they were 5,000 persons, those of them who have died have died, and those who are alive are alive were given to the exempts of the Palace and entrusted as charges to your care. So why are you appropriating them, turning some to recruits, others to chariot-men, and others again to cavalrymen, into your own regular troops?

o 33

05 lim šú-nu ZI-MEŠ ina UGU a-ḫe-

o 44

ammar -tu-u-ni TAv ŠÀ-bi-šú-nu

o 55

-e-tu ù ammar bal-ṭu-u-ni

o 66

bal-ṭu a-na v.zu-ku ša É.GAL

o 77

ta-ad-nu ki-i pi-qit-ti ina pa-ni-ka

o 88

paq-du at-ta a-ta-a ta-na-áš-ši

o 99

an-nu-ti a-na v.rak-su-ti

o 1010

an-nu-ti a-na v.ASIG-MEŠ

o 1111

an-nu-ti a-na ANŠE.šaBAD-ḪAL-la-ti

o 1212

a-na ki-iṣ-ri ša ra-mi-ni-ka

o 1313

tu-ta-ar-šú-nu TAv ŠÀ-bi-ka

(13) Have you not said to yourself: "When the time comes for me to summon them, to whose house shall I go for help?"

o 1414

la ta-ad-bu-ú-bu!

o 1515

ma-a ki-i na-šu-ú re-ši-šú-nu

o 1616

il-la-kan-ni ma-a pa-ni-ia

o 1717

ina É man-nu a-šak-kan

o 1818

ú-ma-a an-nu-rig

(18) I am writing to you right now: You have sent many of them to the south and to the north or wherever on (various) errands; summon them wherever they are, they must be there before my eunuch arrives. I shall now send my eunuch to make a review of them.

o 1919

a-sa-ap-rak-ka

Reverse
r 1r 1

ma-ʾa-ad TAv ŠÀ-bi-šú-nu

r 22

a-na ZAG KAB me-me-e-ni a-na

r 33

ši-pir-ti ta-as-sa-par

r 44

-et šu-nu re-es-su-nu

r 55

i-ši pa-na-at v.SAG-ia

r 66

lu qur-bu an-nu-rig

r 77

v.SAG-ia a-šap-pa-ra

r 88

a-šir-ta-šú-nu i-šak-kan


Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West (State Archives of Assyria, 1), 1987. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2009-11, 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/P334193/.

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