Position in chronology
SAA 01 182. Hands Off My Granaries! (CT 53 888)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 1(Beginning destroyed) (2) Right now [......] perhaps [......] the fodder which [...... he]re. (5) [......] is demanding the food of the chariot troops saying: "You will give food [......]!" The king [my lord knows that we reaped our] s[own fields] together and st[ored] (the yield) in the villages. Mine is on [...] side, and they do not a[gree to give away] (any of) theirs, saying: "[You will] not [touch] our harvest." (13) Whether [......] or not [......]. When [......], 700 (homers) of [......] they reaped [......] their sown fields. (r 5) I do want to [feed] the king my lord's hors[es], but all the same they should not introduce [their] chariot troops and their horses [......]. The towns [...... (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
šá-⸢ki⸣-[x x x x x x x] / an-nu-rig ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / pi-qa-a-ti ⸢nu*⸣-[x x x] / ki-su-tú ša an-[na-ka x x] / NINDA-MEŠ ša LÚv.GIŠ.⸢GIGIR*⸣-[MEŠ x x x] / ⸢e⸣-ri-ši ma-a NINDA-[MEŠ x x x] / ta-da-an LUGAL [be-lí ú-da] / i-sa-a-ḫi-ši :" ŠE.[x x x x] / ina ŠÀ-bi URU-ME ni-⸢du⸣-[bu-ku] / ia-ú ina ba-te ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / i-šu-nu-u la-a i-⸢ma⸣-[gúr la i-du-nu] / ma-a e-bu-ri-ni ⸢la⸣ [x x x] / šum-ma…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Sargon II, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 1, 1987). Letter from a governor or high official to the king of Assyria. ORACC text P314297.
Attribution
Image: 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/P314297/..
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P314297/.
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