SAA 01 255. The River of Samaria Dries up (CT 53 458)[via saao/saa01]


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	[x x x x x x]+⸢x ša⸣ ina [x x x x x x]	(1) ......] which in [...... an of]ficial in charge of the seed g[rain ......
o 2'2'	[x x LÚ^v.EN—pi]-qit-te ina UGU ŠE.⸢NUMUN⸣-[MEŠ x x x]
		(Three untranslatable lines)
o 3'3'	[x x x x]-⸢ub⸣-te-šú ⸢x ka⸣ [x x x x x x]
o 4'4'	[x x x x] a-ta-[x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x]
o 5'5'	[x x x x] a [x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x]
Bottom
b.e. 6'b.e. 6'	[x x]+⸢x⸣ TA^v šap-la ma-⸢a-x⸣+[x x x x x x]	(6) [...] from under [......] he came and gave me [......] dirt [...] emblem [......]
b.e. 7'7'	⸢il⸣-la-ka i-tan-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x]
b.e. 8'8'	šá-ʾu-ur-tú GIŠ.⸢ŠU⸣.NIR [x x x x]
b.e. 9'9'	ÍD TA^v IGI URU.sa-me-⸢ri⸣-[na x x e-tab-la]	(9) The river running past Samar[ia has dried up and] there is just one well in the whole region [......]. I have set [to work ...] and they have filtered it(s water), but they have not yet finished [......].
Reverse
r 1r 1	01-et ši-i PÚ ina ŠÀ-bi gab-⸢bi⸣ [x x x x x]
r 22	ú-ta-me-di is-sa-aḫ-lu-⸢ši⸣ [x x x x x]
r 33	[ú]-di-ni la ú-gam-me-ru ⸢URU⸣.[x x x x x]
r 44	[x x] ⸢ZI^⸣-MEŠ TA^v LÚ^v^.za-ku-e [x x x x x]	(r 4) [...] persons with exempted (soldiers) [......] cities [......
r 55	[x x x x] ⸢URU⸣-MEŠ e-⸢ta⸣-[x x x x x x x]
	rest broken away	(Rest destroyed)

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/P313871/.