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SAA 19 024. Matenni of Tyre Pays Tribute (CTN 5 p. 152)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (2) [On ...], Matenni [of Tyre had written] to the (ruler of) Danab[u, saying]: 'Let us r[aise] the king's money [and give it to him!]' (6) When he had sent t[his] word to [NN], his brother, the royal [delegate NN], showed up, saying: "Give me [the tribute]." He (Matenni) [spoke] with the (ruler of) Danab[u] and told him to give the tribute. [Now then] let all the Sidonites who came w[ith him immediately] com[e] to me with the [delegate, and I shall as]sign [the tribute] and [send it] to the king. (15) The delegate says: "When I heard [this matter I wrote] to the k[ing…
Source: Luukko, M. 2012. The Correspondence of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud. SAA 19. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa19/P224412/
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Transliteration
[x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] / [x] ⸢ḫa?⸣ e ⸢x⸣ x+[x x x x x x x] / mma-te-en-ni [URU.ṣur-a.a o?] / a-na URU.da-na-⸢pa⸣-[a.a is-sap-ra ma-a] / kás-pu ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL ni-⸢iš⸣-[ši ni-di-na-šu] / ma-a ki-i a-bu-tú ⸢an⸣-[ni-tú a-na mx x x] / ŠEŠ-šú iš-pu-ra-⸢šu-ni⸣ [x x x LÚ.qe-pu] / ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL it-tal-ka ma-a* [ma-da-at-tu] / di-na šu-ú TAv URU.da-na-⸢pa⸣-[a.a id-du-bu-ub] / [ma]-a ma-da-at-tu di-na…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P224412.
Attribution
Image: BM — = IM 064037 (National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq (on loan, British Museum, London, UK ?)) — from Kalhu (mod. Nimrud) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P224412). source
Translation excerpted from Luukko, M. 2012. The Correspondence of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud. SAA 19. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa19/P224412/.
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