Position in chronology
SAA 15 182. Information on Sales of Camels and Other Business (ABL 0638)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(Beginning destroyed) (1) "[The ki]ng, my lord, knows [that ... t]his one has [turned] his face [...]." (3) Further, "I have personally sold four c[amels] to the eunuch Nabû-epuš." (5) Further, "He has bought one camel for 1 2/3 minas [of silver] and sold it to the bodyguard Madayu." (7) Further, "80 homers of sesame oil owed by the servants of Il-yada' have accrued on his account. When Il-yada' was discharged, he exempted his servants." (11) Further, of the team (of mules he says): "Mannu-ki-mat-Aššur stands (by it)." (13) Further, Aššur-belu-taqqin and Il-ya[da' have said to] Ereš-ilu the…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[ma-a] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí ú-⸢da?⸣ [x x x x] / [an]-ni-iu-u pa-ni-⸢šú i⸣-[x x x] / ⸢ù⸣ a-na-ku ŠU.2-MEŠ-a.a 04 ⸢ANŠE⸣.[x-MEŠ] / [a]-na mdPA—DÙ-uš LÚv.SAG at-ti-din / ù ma-a 01-en ANŠE.gam-mal ina ŠÀ-bi 01 2/3 MA.NA [KUG.UD] / i-si-qi a-na mmad-a.a LÚv.qur-bu-te / it-ti-din ù 80 ANŠE ŠE.GIŠ.Ì / ša ina UGU LÚv.ARAD-MEŠ ša mDINGIR—ia-da-aʾ / ma-a ina UGU-ḫi-šú es-pu ma-a ki-i / mDINGIR—ia-da-aʾ…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P334441.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334441). 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/P334441/.
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