Position in chronology
SAA 16 123. People for the Rab Mugi (ABL 1343)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 16(Beginning destroyed) (2) [PN], a [...] maker — (3) [...] a parasol (4) he will make [the]re — (5) [PN], chief singer (6) [PN], from Arbela (7) [PN], from Arbela (8) [PN], an Aramean [scrib]e (9) [total x people] at the disposal of the rab-mūgi (10) [......] his sister (11) [PN, ...] of Commagene (Break) (r 2) [...] has released (r 3) [...] ... (r 4) [...] bundles (r 5) [...], servants of the king [who] have been sold [for mon]ey. (r 7) [If the kin]g, my lord, commands, [I will sen]d them over. (r 9) [... whom] your [...] know(s) (Rest destroyed or too broken for translation)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 16 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / [x x x x x]-a-ú? ša ku-⸢x⸣+[x x]-šú / [x x x x] TÚG.ša—GIŠ.MI / [x x ina ŠÀ]-bi ep-pa-áš / [x x x x]-ni LÚ.NAR.GAL / [x x x x] ⸢DUMU⸣—URU.arba-ìl / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ DUMU—URU.arba-ìl / [x x x LÚ.A].⸢BA⸣ LÚ.ar-ma-a-ú / [x x x x ina] IGI LÚ.GAL—mu-gi / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ NIN-šu / [x x x x x x] šá URU.kam-mu-ḫi / [x x x x x x x x x x]-me / [x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣ šu [x x x x]…
Scholarly note
Political letter at the court of Esarhaddon, edited by Mikko Luukko & Greta Van Buylaere (SAA 16, 2002). ORACC text P334853.
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/P334853/..
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/P334853/.
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