Position in chronology
SAA 17 058. Gifts for the King (CT 54 450)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 17(Beginning destroyed) (1) May Na[bû and Mar]duk bless [th]e kin[g, my lord]! Say to the king, my lord: (4) Did I not send the king as a gift a golden necklace and a golden diadem on top of the tribute? (r 1) They are quite sound, I have made them pleasing indeed. The king may be glad.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 17 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
d.⸢AG⸣ [u dAMAR].⸢UTU⸣ [a]-⸢na LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] / lik-ru-bu / um-ma-a a-na LUGAL be-lí-⸢ía⸣-[a-ma] / ul GÚ.BAR KUG.GI / ù pa-tin-nu KUG.GI / šul-man šá LUGAL a-na UGU / bíl-tú ul-te-li / ma-aʾ-diš šal-mu / pa-ni ú-ma-ḫir / LUGAL lu-ú ḫa-ma
Scholarly note
Babylonian-language letter to Sargon II or Sennacherib, edited by Manfried Dietrich (SAA 17, 2003). ORACC text P236891.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P236891). source
Translation excerpted from Dietrich, M. 2003. The Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib. SAA 17. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa17/P236891/.
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