SAA 05 025. Felling Trees in Šubria (ABL 0507)[via saao/saa05]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ašipâ. The best of health to [the king], my lord! | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | (5) The forts and the land of the king, [my] lo[rd], are well. | |
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | (7) The Šubrian (king) makes a detailed [report] in Kulimme[ri], and they [act] in [th]is way in the Palace! They [have s]eized [......] and [...] | |
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | [x x x ú]-⸢ṣa⸣-bi-tú [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni | |
| o 1212 | [x x x x] šu-u-tú [x x x] | |
| o 1313 | [x x x x] i-sa-[x x] | |
| o 1414 | [x x GIŠ.ÙR]-MEŠ GIŠ.ŠÚ.A-MEŠ | |
| o 1515 | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| rest broken away | ||
| Reverse | ||
| rr | beginning broken away | |
| r 1'1' | [x x x x x x] ⸢ka*⸣ [x x x] | |
| r 2'2' | (r 2) [I shall th]row the [rem]aining [door-beams in the ri]ver, and transport and deliver them. | |
| r 3'3' | ||
| r 4'4' | (r 4) All (my) men are in the mountains, felling trees in groves where there are (trunks suitable for) door-beams and roof-beams. | |
| r 5'5' | ||
| r 6'6' | ||
| r 7'7' |
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/P334348/.