SAA 15 060. Delivering Tribute via Bit-Hamban to Babylon (ABL 0242)


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí-ía	(1) To the ki[ng], my lord: your [ser]vant Aššur-belu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord!
o 22	⸢ARAD⸣-ka ^maš-šur—EN—PAB
o 33	⸢lu⸣ šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia
o 44	ša LUGAL EN-li iš-pur-an-ni	(4) Concerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Set out with your troops and tribute, and come" — I shall do my best to set out with the troops and tribute, but because of the snow I had to leave one chariot that came with me in Bit-Hamban. The king knows that there is very much snow.
o 55	ma-a LÚ^v.e-mu-qi-ka TA ma-da-ti-ka
o 66	nam-mi-iš al-ka mi-nu
o 77	mu-qa-a.a LÚ^v.e-mu-qi TA ma-da-te
o 88	ú-nam-ma-ša ana-ku 01-et GIŠ.GIGIR
o 99	ša is-si-ia ta-li-ku-u-ni
o 1010	TA pa-an ku-up-pi ina KUR^*.É—ḫa-ban
o 1111	ur-ta-mi LUGAL ú-da ku-pu-u
o 1212	da-a-na a—dan-⸢niš⸣ is-se-niš LÚ^v.rak-su-MEŠ	(12) Moreover, the recruits, chariot fighters, and all their king's men who were dragging the tribute, [are ...]. Thirty tribute horses
o 1313	LÚ^v.A—SIG₅-MEŠ LÚ^v.ERIM-MEŠ—LUGAL-šú-nu gab-bu
o 1414	⸢ša⸣ ma-da-tu iš-da-du-ni-ni
o 1515	[x] ⸢30^?⸣ ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ ša ma-da-te
o 1616	[x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x]+⸢x⸣-nu ANŠE.BAD-ḪAL-šú	(16) [......] his cavalry
o 1717	[x x x x x] ša LUGAL ina UGU-ḫi-ía	(17) [......] which the king [imposed] upon me
o 1818	[x x x x LÚ^v].⸢ERIM^*⸣—LUGAL-ma šú-nu	(18) [......] are also king's [m]en
o 1919	[x x x x x] ú-din-ni	(19) [...... not] yet
o 2020	[x x x x x x] URU.KÁ.DINGIR šú-nu	(20) [......] they are [in] Babylon
o 2121	[x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-an-ni
o 2222	[x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣
	possibly one line lost	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning (2-3 lines) broken away
r 1'1'	[x x x x x x] ma-da-⸢tu^*⸣	(r 1) [......] the tribute
r 2'2'	[x x x x x x] 20 ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ	(r 2) [......] the 20 horses
r 3'3'	[x x x is-sap]-ra ma-a	(r 3) [... wro]te: "Shall I really bring [...] down in[to] a cohort?"
r 4'4'	[x x] ⸢ŠÀ⸣-bi ki-⸢ṣir^*⸣-e i-ba-áš-ši
r 5'5'	⸢ú^⸣-še^-ra-da a-na an-na-ka	(r 5) They will buy (them) here, (and) he will return and supply his deficit.
r 6'6'	i-la-qi-u-ni i-sa-ḫur-ra bat-qu-šú
r 7'7'	i-ka-ṣa-ra ANŠE.ku-din-MEŠ an-nu-te	(r 7) (As to) these mules which the king imposed upon me, I keep sending to Bit-Kari and they are looking for them, but there are none.
r 8'8'	ša LUGAL ina UGU-ḫi-ia iš-ku-nu-u-ni
r 9'9'	ina É—ka-ri a-šap-pa-ra
r 10'10'	ú-ba-ú la-šú ina UGU LÚ^v.e-mu-qi	(r 10) Concerning the troops about which the king wrote me: "Let them go with you" — I am myself setting out right now, and have issued orders to the major-domo to set out with the camp after my departure.
r 11'11'	ša LUGAL iš-pur-an-ni ma-a is-si-ka
r 12'12'	li-li-ku ana-ku an-nu-rig
r 13'13'	ú-nam-ma-ša a-na LÚ^v.GAL—É
r 14'14'	ṭè-e-mu a-sa-kan-na i—da-tu-u-a
r 15'15'	ma-a-dak-tu ú-nam-ma-áš
r 16'16'	ina UGU LÚ^v.i-tu-ʾa-a.a	(r 16) There was nothing in the letter concerning the Itu'aeans; will they stand [guard] in th[is] district, o[r] should they rather come with me [to Babylon]? Let the king send (word).
r 17'17'	ina ŠÀ e-gír-ti la-šu
r 18'18'	a-na [EN.NUN]-⸢e⸣ ša KUR.na-gi-e
r 19'19'	an-[ni-e i]-za-zu^*
Right
r.e. 20r.e. 20	⸢ú⸣-[la-a] ⸢i⸣-ba-áš-ši
r.e. 2121	⸢x⸣+[x x x x]+⸢x⸣ li-li-ku-né-e
r.e. 2222	is-si-ia
Edge
e. 1'e. 1'	LUGAL liš-pur-ra

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/P334178/.