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SAA 15 317. Why Have You Cultivated so Few Fields? (ABL 1019)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [about whom the ki]ng, [my] l[ord, wrote t]o me, [NN the bod]yguard has brought out [the ...]s fr[om GN. When] Kur'e-uballiṭ [ca]me to me, [I ga]ve them [x ...], 32 farmers and [x hundred] 20 homers of seed corn. (10) [x hundred] 20 homers of seed corn (11) [in ad]dition the people of the house [of ...] (12) [have] culti[vated ...] (r 1) [th]at is in [...]. (r 2) [All told] I have given out 1,100 homers of seed corn. (r 4) Perhaps the king, my lord, will say: "Why (then) have you cultivated so few [arable field]s?" (r 7) [...] it is the barley ration [which re]ached [...] (r 9) [...] for seed corn (r 10) [...] I did not g[ive] (Rest destroyed)
Source: Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P334680/
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Transliteration
[x x ša] ⸢LUGAL* be*⸣-[lí o] / [iš-pur]-⸢an*⸣-ni [x x (x)] / [LÚv.qur]-bu-te ⸢TAv⸣ [x (x x)] / [x x]-MEŠ-te ú-še-⸢ṣa⸣ [o] / [ki-i] mKUR—TI.LA / [il]-li-ku-na-ni / [x x x] ⸢32*⸣ LÚv.ENGAR-MEŠ / [x-me]-20 ANŠE ŠE.NUMUN-MEŠ / [a]-⸢ta⸣-na-šú-nu / [x-me]-20 ANŠE ŠE.NUMUN-MEŠ / [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ UN-MEŠ ⸢É⸣ [x x] / ⸢e?⸣-ta-ra-⸢šu⸣ [x x] / ⸢ša⸣ ina ŠÀ [x x x] / [PAB] 01 lim 01 me ANŠE ŠE.[NUMUN]-MEŠ / ša…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P334680.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334680). source
Translation excerpted from Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P334680/.
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