Position in chronology
SAA 17 133. You Owe the Tribute of Two Years (CT 54 002)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 17(1) Tablet of Nabû-dan to Nabû-šuma-iškun: (3) Why haven't I seen you at the camp for the past two years? And since you haven't seen my house either, by Bel, the tribute of the past two years is incumbent on you.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 17 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
IM mdAG—KALAG / a-na mdAG—MU—GAR-un / am—mì-ni 02-ta MU.AN.NA-⸢MEŠ⸣ / a-ga-a ina ma-dak-tú / a-na-ka ⸢ul⸣ a-mur-ka / u ki-i É-a / ul ta-mu-ru / d.EN-um-ma / ⸢lu⸣-ú i-di / ⸢ki⸣-i a-di / man-da-at-tú / šá 02-ta MU.AN.NA-⸢MEŠ⸣ / ina UGU-ḫi-ka
Scholarly note
Babylonian-language letter to Sargon II or Sennacherib, edited by Manfried Dietrich (SAA 17, 2003). ORACC text P237916.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P237916). source
Translation excerpted from Dietrich, M. 2003. The Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib. SAA 17. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa17/P237916/.
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