SAA 01 116. Merchants’ Dues (ABL 0233+)[via saao/saa01]

Obverse
o 1o 1

[a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ia

(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

[ARAD-ka] maš-šur—ba-ni

o 33

[lu DI-mu a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL EN-ia

o 44

[DI-mu a]-⸢na⸣ É.KUR-MEŠ

o 55

[DI-mu a]-⸢na⸣ URU.kal-ḫa

o 66

[DI-mu a]-⸢na⸣ MÍ—É.GAL

o 77

[DI-mu a-na] ⸢LÚv⸣.QÀL-MEŠ

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

[ša LUGAL be-lí iš]-⸢pur⸣-an-ni

rest broken away

(Break)

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'

[ina URU.kal]-ḫa e-ru-ba

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/.