SAA 05 281. Trees for the Royal Orchards (CT 53 036)[via saao/saa05]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL EN-ia]	(1) To [the king, my lord]: your servant Sin-[ahhe-riba]. Good health to the k[ing, my lord]!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^m30—[PAB—MEŠ—SU]
o 33	lu šul-mu a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia]
o 44	šul-mu a-na [KUR—aš-šur.KI]	(4) [Assyria] is well, the tem[ples] are well, [all the king's] fo[rts] are well. The king, [my] lo[rd], can be [glad indeed].
o 55	šul-mu a-na ⸢É⸣.[KUR-MEŠ-te]
o 66	šul-mu a-na URU.⸢bi⸣-[rat ša LUGAL gab-bu]
o 77	ŠÀ-bu ša LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia a—dan-niš lu DÙG.GA]
o 88	02 GIŠ.UB-MEŠ KALAG-[MEŠ x x x x x x]	(8) Two big ... trees [......]
o 99	UD 05-KAM ša ⸢ITI⸣.[x x x x x x x]	(9) on the 5th day of [......]
o 1010	a-na URU.šu-u-⸢ri^?⸣ [x x x x x]	(10) to the city Šur[u ......]
o 1111	UD 07-KAM ša ⸢ITI⸣.[x x x x x x]	(11) On the 7th of [......]
o 1212	^mtu-ú-a.a ⸢LÚ^v^*⸣.[x x x ina pa-ni-ia]	(12) Tu'ayu [......]
o 1313	it-tal-ka ku-[x x x x x]	(13) came [to me ......]
o 1414	ina ŠÀ GIŠ.KIB ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x]	(14) among the medlar(s) [......]
o 1515	ša GIŠ.SAR [x x x x x x]	(15) of the orchard [......]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	GIŠ.[x x x x x x x x x x]	(r 1) [...] tree [......]
r 2'2'	GIŠ.ŠUR.⸢MAN⸣ [x x x x x x x x]	(r 2) cypres[ses ......]
r 3'3'	gab-bu šu-[x x x x x x x]	(r 3) all [......]
r 4'4'	ina ŠÀ-bi ⸢šu^?⸣ [x x x x x x x]	(r 4) there [......]
r 5'5'	GIŠ.KIN.⸢GEŠTIN⸣ [x x x x x x x]	(r 5) grape[s ......]
r 6'6'	it-ta-ḫa-[ar x x x x x x]	(r 6) recei[ved ......]
r 7'7'	ṭè-e-mu a-sa-[kan x x x x]	(r 7) I gave orders [......]
r 8'8'	dul-lu ša ITI.⸢BARAG⸣ [x x x]	(r 8) the rites of Nisan (I) [......]
	rest uninscribed

Adapted from Giovanni B. Lanfranchi and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 5), 1990. 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/P313451/.