SAA 15 061. Delivering an Audience Gift to the King in Babylon (ABL 0241)[via saao/saa15]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my lord: your [servant] Aššur-belu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | (3) Concerning the audience gift of the month Kanun (X) about which the king, my lord, wrote: "You are to bring me two horses, two bulls, 20 sheep, and 20 jugs (of wine)" — the letter arrived only on the 3rd of Shebat (XI); when can they possibly (deliver it)? Moreover, the king knows that the bulls of this country are very small. Would I not know (the size of) the bulls (given as) audience gift to the house [of my lords]? | |
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | ma-a 02 ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ 02 GUD-MEŠ 20 UDU-MEŠ | |
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | (12) Ever since [the king, my lord], | |
| o 1313 | iq-bu-u-ni a-na ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | (13) commanded, [...] to |
| o 1414 | 02 ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ ša mu-[x x x x x] | (14) two horses of [...] |
| o 1515 | (15) which the king, my lord, wr[ote me about] | |
| o 1616 | ||
| o 1717 | [x] i-ba-⸢áš-ši⸣ [x x x x] | |
| rest broken away | ||
| Reverse | ||
| rr | beginning broken away | |
| r 1'1' | [x x] ma-ki-⸢e* qi*-x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| r 2'2' | [iq]-ṭu-lu ú-se-bi-la [x x x x] | (r 2) The[y w]ere silent, I sent [......] |
| r 3'3' | šú-nu ⸢iq⸣-ṭu-lu ú-bar-⸢ra⸣ [x x x] | (r 3) They kept silent, I ...[...] |
| r 4'4' | (r 4) The royal [offerings], 40 bulls and sheep [for the rites] in Babylon, which [the king] had imposed upon us — last year we gave them in Nisan (I), but the king, my lord, said: "Give them in Tishri (VII)." | |
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| r 8'8' | ||
| r 9'9' | (r 9) Now then the bulls and the sheep are available, but they have not been brought because of the cold and the (swollen) rivers. As the king himself said, let us deliver them in Tishri (VII). But, should we bring them down now, they will (have to) slaughter the sheep. What is it that the king, my lord, commands? | |
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| r 15'15' | ||
| r 16'16' | (r 16) As soon as the king comes to Babylon, I shall come with one chariot to pay my respects to the king. | |
| r 17'17' | ||
| Right | ||
| r.e. 18r.e. 18 | ||
| r.e. 1919 |
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/P334177/.