SAA 15 280. Providing Samarians with Work in Dur-Šarrukin (ABL 1065)[via saao/saa15]
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| o 1'1' | (1) [As to ... concerning which the king], my lo[rd], wrote to me: "[Provi]de [all the Sam]arians [in] your charge (with work) in Dur-Šarrukin" — I subsequently [sent (word) to] the sheikhs, [say]ing: "Collect [all] the carpenters and potters; let them come and [direc]t the deportees [who are in D]ur-Šarrukin," but they did not agree to send them. | |
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| o 11'11' | (11) [Sure]ly, [should I have sen]t [...] letters to the sheikhs, saying: "[If indeed you do not se]nd me craftsmen to work [for] me, [al]l [the people who are] here [......] upon you, [...] upon [...]," [they would have] promptly [se]nt [the craftsmen to] work [for me]. | |
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| r 44 | (r 4) Now (however), [following the king], my lo[rd]'s instructions, I strictly [...] do not argue with any [of the sheikhs]. | |
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| r 88 | (r 8) I have appointed [the carpenters and p]otters [...] | |
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Adapted from Andreas Fuchs and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 15), 2001. 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/P334710/.