SAA 01 070. Work on Ziggurats (ABL 0107)[via saao/saa01]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a-na] ⸢LUGAL^*⸣ be-lí-ia	(1) [To the king], my lord: [your servant Ṭab]-šar-Aššur: Good health to the king, my lord!
o 22	⸢ARAD⸣-ka ⸢^mDÙG^*⸣—IM—aš-šur
o 33	lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia
o 44	ša LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni ma-a	(4) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Why are the names of the city lords of the cities not built high?"
o 55	MU-MEŠ ša LÚ^v.EN—URU^*-MEŠ ša URU-MEŠ
o 66	a-ta-a la za-qu-ru LUGAL be-lí	(6) The king, my lord, knows that our previous campaign which we directed to Mannea (and) Media [... is depicted] o[n the walls of] the Ol[d] Palace. We have in[spected ......]
o 77	ú-da ḫu-li-ni ⸢pa⸣-ni-ú
o 88	ša a-na KUR.man-na-⸢a.a^*⸣ a-na mad-a.a
o 99	⸢ni⸣-il-lik-u-ni ⸢ina⸣ [É.SIG₄-MEŠ^?]
o 1010	[ša] É.GAL la-bir-[te x x x x]
o 1111	[x x] né-e-ta-⸢x⸣+[x x x x]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	[x x]+⸢x lu LÚ.UŠ-x⸣+[x x x x]
r 2'2'	⸢MU⸣-MEŠ LUGAL-MEŠ LÚ.⸢x⸣+[x x x x]	(r 2) [the na]mes of the kings and [...] officials
r 3'3'	⸢pi⸣-tu-a-te ina ⸢IGI⸣ [x x x x]	(r 3) [di]adems in fr[ont of ...]
r 4'4'	⸢MU⸣-MEŠ-šú-nu ⸢ga-mu^-ru^⸣	(r 4) their [na]mes [are compl]eted
r 5'5'	[x x]+⸢x⸣ a-ni-⸢ni⸣ TA^v ŠÀ	(r 5) we [......] from [...]huha to Dur-Šarruken. This [...] has been made ......
r 6'6'	[x x x]+⸢x⸣-ḫu-⸢ḫa⸣ a-na URU.BÀD—MAN—GIN
r 7'7'	[x x x x x] an-ni-tu ep-ša-at
r 8'8'	[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-pa-ḫu-ni
r 9'9'	[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ i-ṣa-bat-su
r 10'10'	[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-at
		(Rest too broken for translation)

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/P334056/.