SAA 05 291. Giving Bricks to the Magnates (CT 53 038)[via saao/saa05]


Obverse
oo	beginning (about 5 lines) broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	[x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x]
o 2'2'	[x x x] ⸢56⸣ tik-pi SIG₄ ⸢KIN^?-MEŠ⸣	(2) [...] 56 courses of bricks [...]
o 3'3'	[x x x x]-tú i-ta-sa-ḫa	(3) [...] he extracted [...].
o 4'4'	[i-sa-par ina] UGU-ḫi-šú ma-⸢a⸣ [a]-⸢ta-a⸣	(4) [He wrote t]o him: "Why did you extract [...]?"
o 5'5'	[x x x x]-tú ta-⸢su⸣-uḫ	(4) [He wrote t]o him: "Why did you extract [...]?"
o 6'6'	[ma-a re-eḫ]-ti dul₆-li-ia ⸢ša⸣ e-pa-šú-ni	(6) [He said: "The re]st of the work that I am doing [is ...; I have receiv]ed from him [x] bricks, but he is still glazing [the kiln-fired bricks]."
o 7'7'	[x x x] ⸢SIG₄⸣-MEŠ i-⸢ba-áš⸣-ši
o 8'8'	[x x x]-⸢di⸣-šú aḫ—ḫu-⸢ur⸣
o 9'9'	[e-bir-tú] ⸢i⸣-šá-ḫa-aṭ
o 10'10'	[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni ša ⸢SIG₄-ME ša⸣ BÀD-šú	(10) I am [herewith] sending [the ...]s of the br[ickwork o]f his wall (assignment) [to the king], my lord.
o 11'11'	[ina UGU LUGAL] EN-ia ú-se-bi-la
o 12'12'	[i—su-ri] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN i-qa-bi	(12) [Perhaps the ki]ng, my lord, will say: "[To who]m have [you] given bricks [...]?"
o 13'13'	[ma-a a-na man]-ni SIG₄-ME ⸢x x⸣
Bottom
b.e. 14'b.e. 14'	[ta]-a-din
b.e. 15'15'	[40^? lim] a-na URU.ar-pad-⸢da⸣	(15) [40,000] to (the governor of) Arpad, [40,000 t]o (the governor of) Sama[ria, 40,000 to] (the governor of) Megid[do], in all [1]20,000 (bricks taken) from the king's entourage.
b.e. 16'16'	[40^? lim a]-⸢na⸣ URU.sa-⸢mir⸣-[na]
Reverse
r 1r 1	[40^? lim a-na] URU.ma-gi-⸢du⸣-[u]
r 22	[PAB 01^? me] 20 lim TA^v IGI li-bit—MAN	(r 2) [In all 30,000 f]rom Na'di-ilu.
r 33	[PAB 30 lim] ⸢TA^v⸣ IGI ^mna-aʾ-di—DINGIR	(r 2) [In all 30,000 f]rom Na'di-ilu.
r 44	[PAB-ma 01^? me] 50 lim SIG₄-MEŠ a-ti-din	(r 4) [All told], I have given out [1]50,000 bricks; [but] I have omitted the bricks of the royal village managers [about which the ki]ng, my lord, wrote me.
r 55	[ù^?] SIG₄-MEŠ ša LÚ^v.GAL—URU-⸢MEŠ MAN⸣
r 66	[ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN iš-pur-an-ni ur-ta-me
r 77	[LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣ ú-da LÚ^v.SAG-MEŠ NUMUN—LUGAL	(r 7) [The ki]ng, my lord, knows that the eunuchs and the royal entourage from [whom] I have been taking the bricks which I have given [to] the magnates are going to petition the king. The king, my [lo]rd, may do as he deems best; [the ki]ng, my [lo]rd, knows that [I have] in the past [days given brick]s to the ki[ng's] entourage.
r 88	[ša] SIG₄-ME TA^v pa-ni-šú-nu ÍL-u-ni
r 99	[a-na] LÚ^v.GAL-MEŠ a-di-nu-ni
r 1010	[a-na LUGAL EN-ia i-ma-ḫu-ru]
r 1111	[LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣ ki-i ša ZU-u-ni le-pu-šú
r 1212	[LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣ ú-da i—ti-ma-⸢li⸣ [i—šá-šu]-⸢me⸣
r 1313	[SIG₄]-ME a-na li-bit—⸢MAN⸣ [a-ti-din]
r 1414	[x x] ⸢dul⸣-lu ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x]	(r 14) [...] the ki[ng's wo]rk [......]
	rest (about 3 lines) broken away	(Rest destroyed)

Adapted from Giovanni B. Lanfranchi and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 5), 1990. 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/P313453/.