SAA 05 291. Giving Bricks to the Magnates (CT 53 038)[via saao/saa05]
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| oo | beginning (about 5 lines) broken away | |
| o 1'1' | [x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| o 2'2' | ||
| o 3'3' | [x x x x]-tú i-ta-sa-ḫa | |
| o 4'4' | (4) [He wrote t]o him: "Why did you extract [...]?" | |
| o 5'5' | [x x x x]-tú ta-⸢su⸣-uḫ | |
| o 6'6' | (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' | ||
| o 10'10' | (10) I am [herewith] sending [the ...]s of the br[ickwork o]f his wall (assignment) [to the king], my lord. | |
| o 11'11' | ||
| o 12'12' | (12) [Perhaps the ki]ng, my lord, will say: "[To who]m have [you] given bricks [...]?" | |
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| 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] | |
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| r 44 | (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. | |
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| r 77 | (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. | |
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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/.