SAA 15 268. Assyrians and Tabaleans Sold for Money in Sadiru (ABL 0602)


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	⸢LÚ^v⸣.[ARAD-MEŠ x x]	(1) [...] s[ervants] of the king, my [lo]rd, both Assyrians and Tabaleans who have been sold here for money — (even) those who brought (only) 4 or 5 shekels have been sold —
o 2'2'	ša LUGAL [be]-lí-ia
o 3'3'	lu-u KUR.aš-šur-a.a
o 4'4'	lu-u KUR.ta-bal-a.a
o 5'5'	ša an-⸢na^⸣-ka ina kas^-pi^*
o 6'6'	ta-da-nu-u-ni
o 7'7'	ša ina ŠÀ 04 GÍN ta-din
o 8'8'	ša ina ⸢ŠÀ⸣ 05^* GÍN ta-din
o 9'9'	01 me 80 ZI-MEŠ	(9) I have brought forth (a total of) 180 'souls,' Assyrian and Tabalean, from the villages and from Sadiru, and am herewith sending them in charge of my messenger to the ki[ng, my lord].
o 10'10'	KUR.aš-šur-a.a
o 11'11'	KUR.ta-bal-a.a
o 12'12'	TA^v URU.ŠE-MEŠ^*
Bottom
b.e. 13'b.e. 13'	TA^v URU.sa-di-ri
Reverse
r 1r 1	ú-se-ṣi-a
r 22	ina ŠU.2 LÚ^v.A—⸢KIN^-ia^⸣
r 33	ina UGU ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-lí-ia]
r 44	ú-se-bi-la

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/P334415/.