SAA 01 077. On Bronze Panthers and a Wood Store (ABL 0091)[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 EN-ía lik-ru-bu
o 55	^dnam-ra-ni URUDU
o 66	ki-la-li ma-za-su-šú-nu	(6) The stands of both bronze panthers are quite attractive; they are working on minor improvements in their finish.
o 77	dam-qa-at a—dan-niš
o 88	dul-la-šú-nu i-ba-ši ša dam-mu-qi
o 99	e-pu-uš ú-da-mu-qu
o 1010	ina UGU É—GIŠ-MEŠ ša ka-nu-ni AN.BAR	(10) As to the wood store for the iron brazier in the palace of the Inner City about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, I consulted the mayors, masons and elders (who told me this):
o 1111	ša ina É.GAL ša URU.ŠÀ—URU ša LUGAL EN iš-pur-ni
o 1212	a-na LÚ^v.ḫa-za-na-te
o 1313	a-na LÚ^v.ú-ra-si LÚ^v.AB.BA-MEŠ
o 1414	a-sa-al ma-a LÚ^v.GAL—píl-ka-ni	(14) "The chief of public works will do the demolition and the brickwork; the sons of the palace maids will supply the materials needed and plaster its roof; if a beam is broken, the masons of the Inner City will supply the replacement."
o 1515	ú-pa-ṭar i-ra-ṣip
o 1616	ma-a DUMU^* GÉME^*—É.GAL
o 1717	bat-qu i-ka-ṣur
o 1818	ma-a ú-ri i-si-ru-šú
Bottom
b.e. 19b.e. 19	ma-a šúm-mu GIŠ.ÙR
Reverse
r 1r 1	ka-si-ip ma-a
r 22	LÚ^v.ú-ra-si ša URU.ŠÀ—URU
r 33	bat-qu i-ka-ṣur
r 44	ú-ma-a a-na LÚ^v.GAL—píl-ka-ni	(r 4) Now, I have told the chief of public works to pull it down and buid it up, but he does not agree (but says): "[.....] I will supply the replacement for its broken beams."
r 55	mu-ku pa-ṭí-ir ri-ṣip^* la^*-a i-ma-gúr
r 66	⸢ma^-a^ la^-a^⸣ [x x]+⸢x⸣-šú^*
r 77	GIŠ.ÙR-MEŠ-šú ša ka-sa-pu-ni
r 88	bat-qu a-ka-ṣar MU.AN.NA
r 99	an-ni-tu lu-u te-ti-qi	(r 9) This year may (well) pass (before the work is done); the king my lord will come in Shebat (XI) and settle (the issue).
r 1010	LUGAL EN a-na ITI.ZÍZ
r 1111	DU-ka ú-ka-na

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/P334040/.