SAA 01 106. A Land Grant to the Nabu Temple of Dur-Šarruken (ABL 0480)[via saao/saa01]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL EN-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-ṣill-Ešarra. Good health to the king, my lord! May Aššur and Mullissu bless the king, my lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^mDÙG.GA—ṣil—É.ŠÁR.RA
o 33	lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía
o 44	aš-šur ^dNIN.LÍL a-na LUGAL
o 55	EN-ia lik-ru-bu
o 66	URU.qu-ra-ni i-qa-bu-ni-šú	(6) There is an estate of 4,000 hectares of arable land in a village called Qurani in the Halahhu province which the king my lord took and [gave] to the Nabû temple of Dur-Šarruken, and (in doing this) the king my lord [gave] this order to [Kiṣir]-Aššur: "Give the Governor of the Land a village in return for the village [......]!"
o 77	ina KUR.ḫa-láḫ-ḫi É 04 lim A.ŠÀ
o 88	ina ŠÀ-bi LUGAL EN i-ti-ši
o 99	a-na É—^dPA ša URU.BÀD—MAN—GIN
o 1010	[it-ti-din] ⸢ù⸣ LUGAL be-li
o 1111	[a-na ^mki]-⸢ṣir^*⸣—aš-šur ṭè-e-mu
o 1212	[is-sa-kan ma-a] ⸢URU^⸣ ina^ ku^-um^ URU
o 1313	[ina KUR.x x x] a-na LÚ^v.GAR.KUR
o 1414	[x x x x x] di-ni^*
o 1515	[x x x x x ina] KUR.ḫal-zi—AD.BAR	(15) [...... in] Halzi-atbar [......] there [......] an estate of 320 hectares [......] he has not given, and I have not cultivated [the king's arable fields].
o 1616	[x x x x x] ⸢ina^*⸣ ŠÀ-bi
o 1717	[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ É 03 me 20 A.ŠÀ
o 1818	[x x x x] la i-din
o 1919	[x x x x] la e-ru-šú
Reverse
r 1r 1	[an-nu]-ri 02-tú šat-tú	(r 1) It is the second year now [that ......] instead of [......]. Let the king, my lord, send a messenger to parcel out whatever field he has left and give it to my messenger. If not, he will keep ignoring me, and I can't put the king my lord's arable fields into cultivation.
r 22	[x x x]+⸢x⸣ TA qa-ni
r 33	[x x x x LÚ^v].A—šip-ri
r 44	LUGAL EN liš^-pur^ A.ŠÀ
r 55	am—mar ina pa-ni-šú re-ḫu-ni
r 66	⸢li⸣-ib-tu-qu a-na
r 77	LÚ^v.A—šip-ri-ia li-din
r 88	la-šu-u-ma ú-sa-né-taq-a-ni
r 99	ŠE.NUMUN-MEŠ ša LUGAL EN-ía
r 1010	[ina] ŠÀ-bi la a-ra-áš

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/P334328/.