SAA 18 076. Barley for the King’s Servants in Nippur (CT 54 495)[via saao/saa18]
| Obverse | ||
| oo | beginning broken away | |
| o 1'1' | ⸢x x da x⸣ [x x] | |
| o 2'2' | (2) No provisions are laid in there, and whatever dates they had, the Puqudeans have carried them all off. But when we wrote to the šandabakku, saying: "We will help ourselves from one thousand (kor of) barley," he refused, (although) he has harvested a large crop. | |
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| o 12'12' | (12) The k[i]ng, my lord, should enquire [...] whether during (all) those [ye]ars (when) an official of the king, my lord, was appointed in Nippur, I did not every year bring in one thousand (kor of) barley and deliver them to the servants [of the kin]g in Nippur. | |
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ⸢x x x⸣-u liš-⸢ʾa-al x⸣ | |
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | ||
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | 01-lim ŠE.BAR la a-zab-⸢bil?-ma⸣ | |
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | ||
| r 99 | (r 9) [The ...]eans should not be exempt | |
| r 1010 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ la | |
| r 1111 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ku-nu | |
| r 1212 | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni | |
| r 1313 | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| rest broken away |
Adapted from Frances Reynolds, The Babylonian Correspondence of Esarhaddon and Letters to Assurbanipal and Sin-šarru-iškun from Northern and Central Babylonia (State Archives of Assyria, 18), 2003. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2015-16, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P237183/.