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SAA 01 148. The ‘Sons of Bought Men’ of Ekallate (ABL 1276)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To] the king, [my] lord: yo[ur servant] Aššur-[...]. (3) [As to] the 'sons of bought (slaves)' of Ekallate [whom the king], my lord, sent to me, [...] king's [me]n [......] king's [me]n ... (Break) (r 2) ..... I have wr]itten to him. [I]f the king my lord commands, [as soon as] the Chief Eunuch [has le]ft, [let the ma]sons [...] the 'sons of bought (slaves)', and let them supply for me [the materials needed for] the Inner City ...[...].
Source: Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P334826/
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Transliteration
[a-na] LUGAL EN-[ia] / [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ maš-šur*—⸢x x⸣+[x] / [ina UGU] LÚv.DUMU—ŠÁM-MEŠ / [ša] ⸢URU⸣.É.GAL-MEŠ / [ša LUGAL] EN iš-pur-ni-ni / [x x LÚv.ERIM]-MEŠ—MAN* / [x x x x x LÚv.ERIM]-MEŠ—MAN* / [x x x x]+⸢x šá*⸣ [x x] / [a]-⸢sa-bar*⸣ ina UGU-ḫi-⸢šú*⸣ / [šum]-⸢ma⸣ LUGAL EN / [i*]-qab-bi / [ki-ma] LÚv.GAL—SAG / [it-ta]-lak / [x LÚv.ú]-⸢ra*⸣-si / [LÚv.DUMU]—ŠÁM-MEŠ / [x x]+⸢x⸣ o* / [bat-qu ša] URU.ŠÀ—URU / [x x] lik-ṣa-ru-ni / [lu]-ú*-še*-⸢še⸣-[ru-ni]
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Sargon II, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 1, 1987). Letter from a governor or high official to the king of Assyria. ORACC text P334826.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334826). source
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P334826/.
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