SAA 19 019. Favourable Exchange Rate (CTN 5 p. 193)[via saao/saa19]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) [To the k]in[g, my lord: yo]ur [servant] Aššur-ma[tka-tera. Good] health to the king, [my lo]rd! | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
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| o 44 | (4) The land of the ki[ng] is well; the royal sustenance fields have been harvested. The exchange rate is extremely favourable in the land: one homer of barley goes for one mina of copper in Nineveh, one homer and 5 seahs (go for one mina of copper) in Halahhu, two homers (go for one mina of copper) in the steppe. 40 minas of wool (go for) one mina of co[pper ......]. | |
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | 01 ANŠE ŠE.PAD-MEŠ | |
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | 01 ANŠE 5(bán) ina KUR.ḫa-láḫ-ḫi | |
| o 1313 | ||
| o 1414 | ||
| o 1515 | ||
| Bottom | ||
| b.e.b.e. | uninscribed | |
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| rr | (traces of 12 lines) |
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/P393679/.