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Obverse
oo	beginning lost	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	[x x x x x x]+⸢x-u-ni⸣
o 2'2'	[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-na-ku	(2) ......] I appointed him to the service of Nagâ, another cohort commander. He did not agree to this but said: "I shall serve in my own community." I am now sending his prefect (and) Nagâ with my 'third man' to the king my lord; let the king, my lord, settle (the matter).
o 3'3'	[ina] ⸢IGI ^mna⸣-ga-a LÚ^v.GAL—ki-⸢ṣir⸣
o 4'4'	šá-ni-e ap-ti-qi-su la im-ma-⸢gúr⸣
o 5'5'	ma-a ina kal-zi-a-ma a-la-su-⸢um⸣
o 6'6'	an-nu-rig LÚ^v.GAR-nu-šú ^mna-ga-[a]
o 7'7'	TA^v LÚ^v.03.U₅-ia ina UGU LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ía]
o 8'8'	ú-se-bi-la LUGAL be-lí lu-ka-a.a-⸢en^*⸣
o 9'9'	ša LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni	(9) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Ilu-pija-uṣur the shepherd says: 'Last year I exacted 3 talents of silver and paid it in full; now, Taklak-Bel has told me to bring yet another two talents'" —
o 10'10'	ma-a ^mDINGIR—KA-a—PAB LÚ^v.SIPA
o 11'11'	i-da-bu-ub ma-a ina MU.IM.MA
o 12'12'	03 GÚ.UN KUG.UD at-ta-as-ḫa ú-sa^-lim^
o 13'13'	ma-a ú-ma-a ^mtak-lak—EN iq-ṭí-bi-a
Bottom
b.e. 14'b.e. 14'	ma-a 02 GÚ.UN aḫ—ḫur i-ṣa
b.e. 15'15'	a-ta-a ana-ku a-qa-ba-šú	(15) Why would I tell him (to do a thing like that)? He is the cohort commander of the shepherds; I imposed on him (a levy of) 300 bales of straw and reeds for the bricks, but he did not give any of it; (instead) he stole the sheep in his charge and went away, seeking refuge in a temple. I sent (men) to bring him to me and told him: "I will excuse your sheep, (just) do (your work)!"
Reverse
r 1r 1	LÚ.GAL—ki-ṣir ša LÚ^v.SIPA-MEŠ
r 22	šu-u-tú 03 me ŠE.ma-qa-ru-tú
r 33	ša ŠE.IN.NU GI.ap-pa-ru SIG₄-MEŠ
r 44	ina UGU-ḫi-šu ú-ta-si-ik ⸢me-me-ni⸣
r 55	TA^v ŠÀ-bi la id-din : UDU-MEŠ
r 66	ša ina pa-ni-šú up-ta-a.a-ṣi
r 77	it-ta-lak ina ŠÀ É.KUR-ri kam^-mu^-su^*
r 88	a-sa-par na-ṣu-ni-šú nu-uk UDU^-⸢MEŠ^-ka^*⸣
r 99	lu-u-ri-ma-ka nu-uk e-pu-uš
r 1010	it-tal-ka LUGAL be-lí it-ta-⸢ḫar^*⸣	(r 10) (So) he has gone and petitioned the king! The king's magnates are assembled; let us settle (the case) in the presence of the Treasurer. The yield of wool [... the k]ing [......
r 1111	LÚ^v.GAL-MEŠ-te ša LUGAL pu-uḫ-⸢ru⸣
r 1212	ina IGI LÚ^v.IGI.DUB nu-uk-ti-ni
r 1313	⸢gi^-zu^-tú⸣ [x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣
	rest destroyed	(Break)
Edge
e. 1e. 1	a.a-ši ⸢a^-na^⸣ ḫi-ṭi-[ia lu la i-šak-kan]	(e. 1) [The king my lord should not lay it] to my fault.

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/P334442/.