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SAA 01 176. Turning in Taxes and Organizing the Province (NL 020)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: Your servant Adda-hati. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) The silver dues of the prefects and village managers imposed on the local population have been handed over: two talents and 18 minas of silver according to the standard of Carchemish. In addition I have sent to the king, my lord, half a shekel of gold, two [tog]as and three tunics with my messenger. (10) [When the king my lor]d gave [... to ...], he gave me 2,450 men; now Danâ has given me only 1,950, reducing (it) by 500 men. Those who were killed [...; ...] are in good health, the extra [...... (Break)…
Source: 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/P224417/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka m10—ḫa-ti / ⸢lu⸣ DI-mu a-⸢na⸣ LUGAL EN-⸢ia⸣ / ⸢KUG⸣.UD ša LÚv.GAR-⸢nu*-ME*⸣-te ša LÚv.GAL—URU-MEŠ-te / ⸢ša⸣ ina UGU UN-MEŠ ⸢KUR⸣ ú-sa-di-⸢ru⸣ / 02 ⸢GÚ⸣.UN ⸢18⸣ MA.NA KUG.UD ina ma-né-⸢e⸣ / ⸢ša⸣ [URU.gar]-⸢ga⸣-mis 1/2 ⸢GÍN⸣ KUG.GI / 02 [TÚG.šá]-⸢din*⸣-MEŠ 03 TÚG.GADA-MEŠ i-⸢se⸣-niš / ina [ŠU.2] ⸢LÚv.DUMU⸣—KIN-⸢ia*⸣ [ina UGU] ⸢LUGAL⸣ / ⸢EN-ia⸣ ú*-se-bi*-[la] / [x x x…
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 P224417.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West (State Archives of Assyria, 1), 1987. 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/P224417/..
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/P224417/.
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