Position in chronology
SAA 15 061. Delivering an Audience Gift to the King in Babylon (ABL 0241)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(1) To the king, my lord: your [servant] Aššur-belu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! (3) Concerning the audience gift of the month Kanun (X) about which the king, my lord, wrote: "You are to bring me two horses, two bulls, 20 sheep, and 20 jugs (of wine)" — the letter arrived only on the 3rd of Shebat (XI); when can they possibly (deliver it)? Moreover, the king knows that the bulls of this country are very small. Would I not know (the size of) the bulls (given as) audience gift to the house [of my lords]? (12) Ever since [the king, my lord], (13) commanded, [...] to (14) two horses of…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL be-lí-ia / [ARAD]-ka maš-šur—EN—PAB lu šul-mu / [a]-na LUGAL EN-ia ina UGU na-mur-te / ša ITI.AB ša LUGAL EN-li iš-pur-an-ni / ma-a 02 ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ 02 GUD-MEŠ 20 UDU-MEŠ / 20 DUG.ŠAB-MEŠ tu-ba-la-an-ni / UD 03-KÁM ša ITI.ZÍZ e-gír-tu / ta-ta-al-ka i—ma-ti ú-šá-ṣu-u / is-se-niš LUGAL ú-da GUD-MEŠ ša ma-a-te / an-ni-ti QÀL-MEŠ a—dan-niš a-⸢na*-ku⸣ / GUD-MEŠ-e na-mur-tu ša…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P334177.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Andreas Fuchs and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 15), 2001. 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/P334177/..
Translation excerpted from Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P334177/.
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