SAA 05 152. Request for New Carts (ABL 0784)[via saao/saa05]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-alik-pani. Good health to the king, my lord! | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | (4) These words that the king, my lord, wrote me about Pihame, the deputy (governor), about the garrisons, about the reports, and about prompting the works — the king, my lord, did greatly ... his servant! | |
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | [x x]+⸢x x x x x⸣ ma [x x] | |
| o 1212 | [x x x x x x x]-a-a | (12) [As to the Itu']eans [about whom the king, my lord, wrote] me, I shall appoint them to [...] the garrisons, to [the ... of] the village inspectors, t[o the ... o]f the towns, and t[o the fort]s. |
| o 1313 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x]-⸢an⸣-ni | |
| o 1414 | a-⸢na*⸣ [x x x x] EN.NUN-MEŠ | |
| o 1515 | a-⸢na⸣ [x x x] LÚv.GAL—URU-MEŠ | |
| o 1616 | a-⸢na⸣ [x x x] ⸢ša*⸣ URU-MEŠ-ni | |
| o 1717 | ||
| o 1818 | (18) [The king], my lord, can be glad indeed about the [for]ts and the servants of the king, [m]y [lord], who are here. | |
| o 1919 | ||
| o 2020 | ||
| o 2121 | (21) Now that the king, my lord, has written to me, I shall assign my king's men, chariotry and cavalry as the king wrote me, and I shall be in the [ki]ng my lord's presence in Arbela with my king's men and army by the [dea]dline set by the king, my lord. | |
| o 2222 | ||
| o 2323 | ||
| o 2424 | ||
| Bottom | ||
| b.e. 25b.e. 25 | ||
| b.e. 2626 | ||
| b.e. 2727 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | (r 1) I shall bring [wit]h me [the wr]iting-[bo]ard on the works (in progress) [which] the king wrote [I should bring], and I shall have it read to [the king], my lord. | |
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | ||
| r 55 | (r 5) May the king, my lord, do this (favour) to his servant! My previous carts were not good and I have ...ed new ones, but they are not ready. May the king, my lord, write to Adad-ibni, that they should [send me] good carts, (furnished) with linen abo[ve] and with tunimmu leather below. | |
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | ||
| r 99 | ||
| r 1010 | ||
| r 1111 | ||
| r 1212 | (r 12) This is [the only thing] that I am lacking. | |
| r 1313 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ša ma*-ṭi-a-⸢ku*-ú*⸣-ni | |
| r 1414 | [x x x] gab-bu [x x x x] | |
| r 1515 | [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r 1616 | [x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| r 1717 | [x x x] ina UGU mtar*-⸢di*-tú*⸣—aš-šur | (r 17) As to Tard[i]tu-Aššur, [the king] my lord's [servant], perhaps [the king, my lord, will sa]y: "Why [...] of his expedition [......]?" |
| r 1818 | ||
| r 1919 | ||
| r 2020 | [x x x x x]+⸢x ša* KASKAL*⸣-šú | |
| r 2121 | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x ma*-la*⸣ | |
| last two lines rubbed off |
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/P334555/.