SAA 01 027. Give Straw or Die![via saao/saa01]


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	[x x x x] ⸢lu⸣ qur-bu lu ⸢x⸣+[x x]	(1) ......] must be at hand and [...! Should even one day pass by, y]ou will die!
o 2'2'	[x x x at-tu]-nu ta-mu-ta [x x]
o 3'3'	[ú-ma-a an-nu]-rig a-sa-ap-rak-⸢ku⸣-[nu]	(3) I am writing to you right [now]: [as long as] I am here, [...] quickly [and ...] bales of straw [...... in your] hands [......
o 4'4'	[a-du an-na]-⸢ka⸣ a-na-ku-ni ár-ḫiš [o]
o 5'5'	[x x x x x x] ⸢ma⸣-qa-rat ša ⸢ŠE⸣.IN.[NU]
o 6'6'	[x x x x x x x x x] ⸢ina⸣ ŠU.2-[ku-nu]
	rest broken away	(Rest destroyed)
Reverse
rr	destroyed

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/P336595/.