Position in chronology
SAA 16 054. Silver for the Merchants (SAAB 04 5)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 16(1) Concerning the merchan[ts] about whom my lord said: "I have not sent their money, (for) there is no silver" — I have heard (it). My lord should send 14 minas of silver. (6) Perhaps my lord will say: "How did you figure it out?" Four merchants: half a mina each. Their four wives: half a mina each. One female dyer: half a mina. The re[st I shall i]tem[ise] (and) [...] in [a ...] (Break followed by a blank space) (r 1) And [...] come to [...] in front of the city gate!
State Archives of Assyria, volume 16 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
ina UGU LÚ.DAM.QAR*-[MEŠ] / ša be-lí iq-bu-u*-⸢ni*⸣ / ma-a kas-pi-šú-nu la ⸢ú-še⸣-<bi>-la / ma-a KUG.UD ⸢la⸣-áš-šú as-se-me / 14 MA.NA KUG.UD be-lí lu-še-bi-la / is—su-ri be-lí i-qa-bi / ma-a a-ke-e tak-ṣip / 04 LÚ.DAM.QAR-MEŠ 1/2 MA.NA-a.a / 04 MÍ-ME-šú-nu 1/2 MA.NA-a.⸢a⸣ / 01 MÍ.mu-ṣap-pi-tú 1/2 MA.NA [o] / re-⸢eḫ-tú⸣ [a]-sa*-[dir] / ina [x x x x x x x] / ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] / ù [x x x x x x x] / a-na [x x x x x x x] / pa-an KÁ.GAL [x x] / al-ka
Scholarly note
Political letter at the court of Esarhaddon, edited by Mikko Luukko & Greta Van Buylaere (SAA 16, 2002). ORACC text P336802.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336802). source
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/P336802/.
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