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SAA 15 084. Receiving Tribute Horses; Constructing Kar-Šarrukin (NL 042)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (2) They will [bring] the h[ors]es and come. (3) As to the news of Daltâ, he is not leaving (his) house and nobody is entering into his presence. I have heard that he is collecting the rest of the tribute. I shall obligate him to deliver it. (6) I have taken the released Medes who are i[n my prese]nce (and) 30 horses. The remaining people are with me. (8) [I have re]ceived the tribute of the land of Zakrutu, 40 horses. They promised to give the rest [of the tribute]. (10) The king, my lord, [should send] (word) to the magnates that they may [proc]eed against Kuluman.…
Source: Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P224449/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / ⸢ANŠE⸣.[KUR].⸢RA?-MEŠ⸣ [x x]+⸢x⸣-ni il-lak-u-ni / ina UGU ṭè-e-mu ša mdal-ta-a TAv É la ú-ṣa-a / ù me-me-ni ina pa-ni-šú la e-rab a-se-me / ma-a re-eḫ-te ma-da-te ú-⸢pa-ḫar a?-ṣa?-me⸣-su / i-da-⸢na⸣ LÚv.mat*-a.a ša pa-⸢ṭu-ru⸣-[ni] ša ⸢ina IGI⸣-ia / 30 ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ a-ta-ṣa re-eḫ-te UN-MEŠ ina IGI-ia / ma-da-te ša KUR.zak-ru-tú 40 ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ / [a]-⸢ta⸣-ḫar…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P224449.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Andreas Fuchs and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 15), 2001. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2009-11, 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/P224449/..
Translation excerpted from Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P224449/.
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