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SAA 01 158. Gold and Silver Objects Sent to the King (CT 53 001)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Sin-a[šared]. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) 1 big golden box, 1 golden plate, 3 crests of white silver, 1 box of gold scraps, 2 golden goblets, 4 firewood containers (with) golden (weighing) stones, 1 ... overlaid with gold, 1 bronze washing bowl, silver tableware, 1 box containing 153 silver bowls, 1 box (with) 25 bowls of ... silver and 26 silver ...; (r 1) 1 lion's head (rhyton) of silver, [...... (r 2) (Break) (r 6) 1 golden [......], 1 [......], [...] golden [...... (r 7) (Break) (r 12) ... I have just] sent [to] the king, my lord.
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/P313416/
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Transliteration
⸢a⸣-na LUGAL be-lí-⸢ia⸣ / ARAD-ka m⸢d⸣30—⸢SAG?⸣.[KAL?] / lu-u šul-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía / 01 GIŠ.tup-ni-nu KALAG KUG.GI / 01 ZU KUG.GI 03 ⸢ṣip⸣-rat KUG.UD x ⸢x⸣ / 01 GIŠ.tup-ni-nu ḫu-ši-e KUG.⸢GI?⸣ / ⸢02 GÚ⸣.ZI KUG.GI / ⸢04⸣ GIŠ.É—gi-ṣi-te / (blank) NA₄-MEŠ KUG.GI / 01 ḫu-⸢up-pu?⸣ KUG.GI uḫ-ḫu-zu / 01 nar-ma-ak-tú URUDU / (blank) ú-de-e KUG.UD ⸢x x⸣ / 01 GIŠ.tup-ni-nu / (blank) 01 me 53 kap-pi…
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 P313416.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313416). 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/P313416/.
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