SAA 19 038. Chief of Trade Falling Sick (CTN 5 p. 295)[via saao/saa19]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the chief eunuch, my lord: your servant Ahu-lamur. | |
| o 22 | ||
| __________________________ | ||
| o 33 | (3) The best of health to my lord! | |
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | (5) The chief of trade was hit by an affliction on the 22th of Elul (VI). I looked at him for a day, (but) it did not leave him. I looked at him for da[ys], it did not leave h[im]. Thereupon I sent a messenger to [m]y lord. | |
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | ||
| o 1313 | ||
| o 1414 | ||
| o 1515 | ||
| Bottom | ||
| b.e. 16b.e. 16 | ||
| b.e. 1717 | (17) My lord may speak (about it), if it has (already) been spoken about in the Palace. If not, my lord s[hould writ]e to our ph[ys]ician. | |
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | ||
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | (r 6) I have not [yet] got the trib[ute] under way. | |
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | (r 8) Let my lord send a royal order to Nergal-belu-uda''an that he takes on the rest of the tribute and bears the responsibility for the tribute. | |
| r 99 | ||
| r 1010 | ||
| r 1111 | ||
| r 1212 | ||
| r 1313 | ||
| rest (one line) uninscribed |
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/P428966/.