SAA 19 170. Raising Food and Fodder from Desert Towns (CTN 5 p. 173; SAA 01 172)


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na [LUGAL EN-ía]	(1) To [the king, my lord: yo]ur servant [Bel-duri].
o 22	ARAD-⸢ka⸣ [^mEN—BÀD]	(1) To [the king, my lord: yo]ur servant [Bel-duri].
o 33	LUGAL be-lí [ṭè-mu is-sa-kan]	(3) The king, my lord, [gave orders]: "[All] gover[nors] may raise food and fodder from [Šamaš]-a[hu-idd]ina with you, and Adad-issiya (and) Bel-lešir are to support Abi-lešir!"
o 44	ma-a LÚ^v.EN.⸢NAM⸣-[MEŠ gab-bu]
o 55	⸢NINDA⸣-MEŠ ⸢ki⸣-su-tú TA^v ^m⸢^d⸣[UTU]—⸢PAB—AŠ⸣
o 66	i-si-ku-nu li-in-tú-ḫu
o 77	ma-a ^m10—⸢KI⸣-ia ^mEN—GIŠ
o 88	a-⸢na⸣ ^mAD—GIŠ lu-šá-⸢ki-lu⸣
o 99	la-a ⸢i⸣-ma-gúr la-a i-šá-mi	(9) They have not agreed to this though, but are disobedient, saying: "Why should our villages in the desert belong to all the governors? The villages are ... within each other!"
o 1010	a-ta-⸢a⸣ in-nu-te ma-a URU-MEŠ-ni
o 1111	ina mad-bar ša LÚ^v.EN.NAM-ME ⸢gab-bi⸣-šú-nu
o 1212	URU-MEŠ ina ŠÀ a-ḫi-ši pa^?-nu-gu
o 1313	LUGAL be-lí liš-pu-ra URU-ME-šú-nu	(13) The king, my lord, should sent word that they are to write down their desert villages. Ever since the king my lord has levied pack animals from Hamath, I have been on my own, and he (= Abi-lešir) and they (= Adad-issiya and Bel-lešir) have been [on their own]. Tomorrow the king [my lord] will surely kill me, saying: "You are but a bunch of do-nothings!"
o 1414	ša mad-bar liš-ṭu-⸢ru⸣
o 1515	TA^v É ⸢ANŠE⸣.a-ṣa-pu LUGAL be-lí
o 1616	TA^v KUR.ḫa-ma-te is-<su>-ḫu-u-ni
Bottom
b.e. 17b.e. 17	a-na-ku a-na-⸢ku⸣-[ma]
b.e. 1818	šu-ú šú-nu-ú-⸢ma⸣ [šú-nu]
b.e. 1919	⸢i⸣—ši-a-ri LUGAL [be-lí]
Reverse
r 1r 1	⸢i-du-ka^?⸣-a-ni ma-⸢a⸣
r 22	la e-pi-šú-⸢te⸣ at-tú-nu
r 33	an-ni-ú ⸢NINDA⸣-MEŠ ⸢ki-su⸣-tú	(r 3) The following is (my) bread and fodder per calendar month: 105 homers of fodder, 123 homers of bread, total 228 homers, Šamaš-ahu-iddina; 75 homers of fodder, 15 homers of bread, total 90 homers, Abi-lešir; 600 (homers of bread) of 2,000 full-time (lit. ‘free') (soldiers of the king) of Commagene. In all 918 homers a month, this household.
r 44	ša 01 ITI ⸢01⸣ me 05^* ANŠE ⸢ki-su⸣-tú
r 55	01 me 23 ANŠE ⸢NINDA-MEŠ⸣ PAB 02 me ⸢28⸣ ANŠE
r 66	^m^dUTU—PAB—AŠ 75 ANŠE ⸢ki⸣-su-tú
r 77	15 ⸢ANŠE⸣ NINDA-MEŠ PAB 90 ANŠE ^mAD—GIŠ
r 88	06 me ša 02 lim LÚ^v.za-ku-e
r 99	ša KUR.ku-mu-ḫa-a.a
r 1010	PAB 09 me ⸢18⸣ ANŠE ša 01 ITI
r 1111	É an-ni-ú LUGAL be-lí ú-da	(r 11) The king my lord knows (the situation) of the road stations: we take care of three stretches while they take care of two stretches each. Now, the king my lord should know that they are reb[ell]ing (against this arrangement, while) we [...].
r 1212	ina ŠÀ-bi mar-di-a-te 03 mar-di-tú
r 1313	an-ni-nu ni-ma-⸢ta⸣-ḫa šú-nu
r 1414	šu-na-a.a i-ma-tú-ḫu
r 1515	ú-ma-a LUGAL be-⸢lí lu ú-da⸣
Right
r.e. 16r.e. 16	[šú]-nu i-bal-⸢ku⸣-[tu]
r.e. 1717	⸢an⸣-ni-nu [x x x x x]

Adapted from Mikko Luukko, The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud (State Archives of Assyria, 19), 2012. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, 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/X190170/.