Position in chronology
SAA 17 159. Sending Tyrians to the King (CT 54 494)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 17(1) Your servant Nabû-ili: I would gladly die for the king, my lord! Say to the king, my lord: (4) (Regarding) Sagibi and the Tyrians with him, of whom the king wrote: "Who is the eunuch [...] (7) and the barley (and) seeds ... (8) In your house the 'washing of the mouth' (9) [...] wood, houses (Break) (r 1) we will lay [...] (r 2) I want to see ... [...] of the king to [...]. (r 4) I am herewith sending to the king the Ty[rians and the ...] which you set for them, as well as their wardens [...], Rahi and Ia[...]. May the king [...] the [...] and the price [...].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 17 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
ARAD-⸢ka⸣ md⸢AG⸣—DINGIR / a-na di-na-an ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí-ia lu-⸢lik⸣ / um-ma-a a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia-a-⸢ma⸣ / msa₁₆-gi-bi ù LÚ.ṣu-ri-⸢ia⸣ / šá it-ti-šú šá LUGAL iš-pur / um-ma man-nu LÚ.⸢SAG x x⸣-aʾ / ù ŠE.BAR ⸢NUMUN? x x⸣ / i-na É-ka LUḪ—KA-MEŠ / [x]+⸢x⸣ GIŠ-MEŠ É-MEŠ / [x x x]+⸢x x⸣ / ni-id-⸢di⸣ [x x x x] / lid? ⸢x x⸣ nu ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] / šá LUGAL a-na ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] / lu-⸢mur⸣ LÚ.ṣu-⸢ri⸣-[ia x x x] /…
Scholarly note
Babylonian-language letter to Sargon II or Sennacherib, edited by Manfried Dietrich (SAA 17, 2003). ORACC text P237181.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Manfried Dietrich, The Neo-Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib (State Archives of Assyria, 17), 2003. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2009-11, 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/P237181/..
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/P237181/.
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