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SAA 01 159. Reclaiming Investments in Dur-Šarruken (ABL 1442)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 1(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Salmanu-[...]. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) The king my lord told [me]: "Nobody will pay back your loans until the work on Dur-Šarruken is finished!" — (9) (Now) they have ref[unded] to the merchants (loans on) the portion of Dur-Šarruken that has been constructed, but nobody [has reminded] (the king) about me; 570 minas of silver with [my seal] and due this year have not been repaid as yet. (16) When the king, my lord, sold gold and pre[cious stones] on my account, I told the king, my lord, that my father was much in debt to Har[...], Huziru…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-[ia] / ARAD-ka mdDI-ma-nu—[x x] / DI-mu a-na LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia] / LUGAL EN iq-ṭí*-[bi-a] / ma-a a-di dul-lu ša URU.⸢BÀD⸣—[mMAN—GIN] / ú-gam-ma-ru-u-[ni] / ma-a me-me-ni ḫa-bul-li-⸢ka⸣ / la ú-šal-[lam] / ni-is-ḫu ša TAv URU.BÀD—[mMAN—GIN] / ra-ṣi-pu-u-[ni] / a-na LÚv.DAM.QAR-MEŠ ú*-⸢sa*⸣-[li-mu] / me-me-ni ina UGU-ḫi-ia ⸢la⸣ [ú-šaḫ-sis] / 05 me 70 MA.NA KUG.UD NA₄.[KIŠIB-ia] / ša…
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 P334910.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334910). 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/P334910/.
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