Position in chronology
SAA 05 203. When the King Established the Debt Remission (ABL 0387)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to the wine about which the king, my lord, wrote me: "Set aside 200 homers for the garrison!" — I have set aside as much of it as the king, my lord, wrote. (10) As to Kubaba-satar about whom the king, my lord, wrote me: "Speak nicely with him!" — (14) my [mo]uth is closed. [As the ki]ng, my lord, [wr]ote me, [I shall speak nic]ely [with him ......] (Break) (r 3) [He] will st[ay in] my [pre]sence. (r 4) I have now se[nt] (word), and I shall find an interpreter in [...], acquire him for the king, my…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / ARAD-ka mLUGAL—IGI.LAL-ni / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ina UGU GEŠTIN-MEŠ ša LUGAL / be-lí iš-pur-an-ni / ma-a 02 me ANŠE GEŠTIN-MEŠ / a-na ma-ṣar-te ú-li / a—mar ša LUGAL be-lí / iš-pur-an-ni ú-ta-li / ina UGU mkù*-KÁ—sa-tar / ša LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni / [ma]-a ina pi-i DÙG.GA / [i]-si-šú du-ub-bu / [pi]-⸢i⸣-ia*-a-ma la pa*-te* / [ki-i ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334263.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Giovanni B. Lanfranchi and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 5), 1990. 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/P334263/..
Translation excerpted from Lanfranchi, G.B. & Parpola, S. 1990. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces. SAA 5. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa05/P334263/.
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