Position in chronology
SAA 16 035. Paying Back Father’s Debts (ABL 0948)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 16(1) To the crown prince, my lord: your servant Šumaya. Good health to the crown prince, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the crown prince, my lord. (5) 1,000 (homers) of barley from the king were at my father's disposal. Now I have given 400 (homers) of barley from it, 600 (homers) of barley remain at my disposal. (Break) (r 1) [......] I have appealed to the crown prince, my lord. May the crown prince, my lord, not leave me in the lurch, (but) do something. (r 5) Just as today the emissaries of all the countries pass [bef]ore your father, so [may] they pass before the crown prince, [m]y lo[rd], for a thousand years.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 16 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na DUMU—LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka mšu-ma-a.a / lu-u šul-mu a-na DUMU—LUGAL EN-ia / dAG u dAMAR.UTU a-na DUMU—LUGAL EN-ia / lik-ru-bu 01 lim ŠE.PAD-MEŠ ša LUGAL / ina pa-an AD-ia ú-ma-a a-na-ku / 04 me ŠE.PAD-MEŠ TAv ŠÀ-bi at-ti-din / 06 me ŠE.PAD-MEŠ ina pa-ni-ia re-e-ḫa-at / nu-[x x x]-an? a-na DUMU—LUGAL / EN-ia at-ta-ḫar DUMU—LUGAL be-lí / lu la ú-ra-man-ni / me-me-e-ni le-e-pu-uš / [ki]-i ša…
Scholarly note
Political letter at the court of Esarhaddon, edited by Mikko Luukko & Greta Van Buylaere (SAA 16, 2002). ORACC text P334639.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Mikko Luukko and Greta Van Buylaere, The Political Correspondence of Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 16), 2002. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, 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/P334639/..
Translation excerpted from Luukko, M. & Van Buylaere, G. 2002. The Political Correspondence of Esarhaddon. SAA 16. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa16/P334639/.
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