Position in chronology
SAA 15 074. A Man Sells his Daughter to Karalla (CT 53 027)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(Beginning destroyed) (2) [...... T]his [man] had so[ld his] daug[hters for money i]n Karalla. (Later) he put [...] salt in a bag and put his seal in it, went off, and sent it to his daughter(s), saying: "Run away and come to me!" (7) An Itu'ean whom I had appointed as a ... in the fort, and who returned this salt, said it to a bodyguard, and the bodyguard wrote (about it) to the king, my lord. (r 1) As to what the king, my lord, wr[o]te to me, no Karalleans remained (here so) I (could) not ask them, nor are there corn rations, wine, ... (or) kudimmu (salt) that they would be giving them. (r…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x x x x x]-ni / ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x an]-⸢ni⸣-ú / DUMU.[MÍ-MEŠ-šú x x ŠÀ]-bi KUR.kar-la / i-⸢ti⸣-[din x x x]+⸢x⸣ MUN ina ŠÀ-bi KUŠ.A.⸢GÁ⸣.LAL / NA₄.KIŠIB-šú ina ŠÀ-bi ik-ta-ra-ár it-⸢ta?-lak?⸣ / šu-ú a-na DUMU.MÍ-šu ú-se-bi-il ma-a / ḫi-il-qa-a-ni al-ka-ni LÚv.i-tu-ʾa-a.a / ša a-na GIŠ.⸢TAB⸣.BA ina URU.ḪAL.ṢU ap-⸢qi-du⸣-u-ni / MUN an-ni-tu ú-sa-ḫi-ru-u-ni / a-na LÚv.qur-bu-te…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P313442.
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/P313442/..
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/P313442/.
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