SAA 01 119. Boats Carrying Bull Colossi Sink (ABL 0420)[via saao/saa01]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-bani. Good health to the king, my lord! | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | (4) Aššur-šumi-ke'in called me to help and loaded the bull colossi on the boats, but the boats could not carry the load (and sank). | |
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | (11) Now, although it cost me a great trouble, I have now hauled them up again. | |
| o 1212 | a-bu-tu o* | |
| o 1313 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| rest uninscribed |
Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West (State Archives of Assyria, 1), 1987. 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/P334288/.