SAA 19 107. Talents of Silver (CTN 5 p. 78)[via saao/saa19]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-⸢ia⸣	(1) [To the k]ing, m[y] lord: your [servant] Nabû-nammi[r. Good] health to the king, m[y] lord! May [Na]bû and Marduk bless [the king], my lord!
o 22	[ARAD]-ka ^m^dAG—ZÁLAG-⸢ir⸣
o 33	[lu] DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-⸢ia⸣
o 44	[^d]⸢AG⸣ u ^dAMAR.UTU
o 55	[a-na LUGAL] EN-ia lik-ru-bu
o 66	[ša LUGAL EN]-⸢ni⸣ iš-pur-an-⸢na-ši⸣-[ni]	(6) [As to what the king, ou]r [lord], wrote to us, [......]
o 77	[x x x]+⸢x⸣-u-⸢ti⸣ [x x x]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x]
r 2'2'	[x x x]+⸢x x x x⸣ [x x x x]
r 3'3'	[x x] ⸢ik⸣-ta-⸢ru^?⸣ [x x x]	(r 3) [... t]hey placed [...]
r 4'4'	[x x] ⸢GÚ⸣.UN KUG.⸢UD⸣ [x x x x]	(r 4) [x ta]lent(s) of silver [...]
r 5'5'	[x x ina] UGU ⸢URU⸣.[x x x]	(r 5) [...] upon the ci[ty ...]
r 6'6'	[x x x x]+⸢x ka⸣ [x x x x]	(r 6) [...] y[ou ...]
Right
r.e. 7r.e. 7	[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x]
r.e. 88	[x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x]
		(Rest destroyed or too broken for translation)

Adapted from Mikko Luukko, The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud (State Archives of Assyria, 19), 2012. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, 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/P393649/.