SAA 01 116. Merchants’ Dues (ABL 0233+)[via saao/saa01]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) [To the ki]ng, my lord: [your servant] Aššur-bani. [Good health t]o the king, my lord! The temples are [well], the city of Calah is [well], the queen is [well], the slaves [are well]. | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | ||
o 44 | ||
o 55 | ||
o 66 | ||
o 77 | ||
o 88 | [ina UGU mx x x] LÚ*.DAM.QAR | (8) As for [...] the merchant [of whom the king, my lord, wr]ote to me [..... |
o 99 | ||
rest broken away | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | beginning broken away | |
r 1'1' | [x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x] | |
r 2'2' | [x x x x]-te msi-li-⸢i⸣ | (r 2) ..... nor has] Silî entered [Cal]ah; [... and] their iškāru dues [...] have been received. |
r 3'3' | ||
r 4'4' | [x x x x] iš-QAR-šú-nu | |
r 5'5' | [x x x x] maḫ-ru-u-ni |
Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West (State Archives of Assyria, 1), 1987. 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/P334172/.