Position in chronology
SAA 01 034. Distributing Tribute and Audience Gifts (ABL 0568)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 1(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Sin-ahhe-riba. Good] health [to the king, my lord! Assyria is w]ell, the temples are well, all the king's forts are well. The king, my lord, can be glad indeed. (8) Two talents of silver, 20 minas of silver in place of ivory, 50 tunics, 10 togas, 3 potfuls of iced fish, 20 creels with 1,000 fish, all tribute; one mural crown of gold, 20 silver bowls, 4 togas of byssus, 15 Hasaean tents, 10 tunics, 10 large togas, all audience gift: all this to the Palace; (14) 3 minas of silver, 2 tunics, 3 togas, tribute; 10 minas of silver, 5 tunics, 5 togas, audience…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia] / [ARAD-ka md30—PAB-MEŠ—SU] / [lu] šul-mu [a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia] / [šul]-mu [a-na KUR—aš-šur.KI] / šul-mu a-[na] É.KUR-MEŠ-te / šul-mu a-na URU.bi-rat ša LUGAL gab-bu / ŠÀ-bu ša LUGAL EN-ia a—dan-niš lu DÙG.GA / 02 GÚ.UN KUG.UD 20 MA.NA KUG.UD ku-um ZÚ*—AM.SI / 50 TÚG.GADA-MEŠ 10 TÚG.šad-din 03 DUG.LA—ma-qar-te KU₆ / 20 lat-tú KU₆ 01 lim KU₆-MEŠ PAB ma-da-at-tú / 01 GILIM…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Sargon II, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 1, 1987). Letter from a governor or high official to the king of Assyria. ORACC text P334390.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334390). source
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P334390/.
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