SAA 15 149. The King of Elam Gets(?) Silver and Gold from(?) Zer-Babili (CT 53 507)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313920

Translation · reference

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) "the king of Ela[m ...] (r 2) [...] Zer-Babi[li ...] (r 3) [...] sen[t ...] (r 4) [...] my father's house [...] (r 5) [...] at his disposal [...] (r 6) [...] silver and gol[d ...] (r 7) [Kalb]i-Ukû [...] (Rest destroyed)

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/P313920/

Why it matters

Transliteration

[x] ⸢x⸣ [x] ⸢ni⸣ [x x x x x] / [ma]-a LUGAL KUR.NIM.[MA.KI x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣ mNUMUN—KÁ.DINGIR.[RA.KI x x] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ bar i-sap-⸢ra⸣ [x x x] / [x x]-bu-lu É—AD-⸢ia⸣ [x x x] / [x x]-me ina pa-ni-šu ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣-a KUG.UD-MEŠ KUG.⸢GI⸣-[MEŠ x] / [mkal]-⸢bi⸣—ú-ku-ú a-[x x x] / [x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x]

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P313920.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313920). source
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/P313920/.

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