SAA 15 182. Information on Sales of Camels and Other Business (ABL 0638)


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	[ma-a] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí ú-⸢da^?⸣ [x x x x]	(1) "[The ki]ng, my lord, knows [that ... t]his one has [turned] his face [...]."
o 2'2'	[an]-ni-iu-u pa-ni-⸢šú i⸣-[x x x]
o 3'3'	⸢ù⸣ a-na-ku ŠU.2-MEŠ-a.a 04 ⸢ANŠE⸣.[x-MEŠ]	(3) Further, "I have personally sold four c[amels] to the eunuch Nabû-epuš."
o 4'4'	[a]-na ^m^dPA—DÙ-uš LÚ^v.SAG at-ti-din
o 5'5'	ù ma-a 01-en ANŠE.gam-mal ina ŠÀ-bi 01 2/3 MA.NA [KUG.UD]	(5) Further, "He has bought one camel for 1 2/3 minas [of silver] and sold it to the bodyguard Madayu."
o 6'6'	i-si-qi a-na ^mmad-a.a LÚ^v.qur-bu-te
o 7'7'	it-ti-din ù 80 ANŠE ŠE.GIŠ.Ì	(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."
o 8'8'	ša ina UGU LÚ^v.ARAD-MEŠ ša ^mDINGIR—ia-da-aʾ
o 9'9'	ma-a ina UGU-ḫi-šú es-pu ma-a ki-i
o 10'10'	^mDINGIR—ia-da-aʾ pat-tu-u-ni LÚ^v.ARAD-MEŠ-šú
o 11'11'	ú-zak-ki ù ša ANŠE.ú-re-e	(11) Further, of the team (of mules he says): "Mannu-ki-mat-Aššur stands (by it)."
o 12'12'	ma-a ^mman-nu—ki—KUR—aš-šur iz-za-az
o 13'13'	ù ^maš-šur—EN—LAL u ^mDINGIR—ia-[da-aʾ]	(13) Further, Aššur-belu-taqqin and Il-ya[da' have said to] Ereš-ilu the eunuch: "Bring him out and put him in the hands of a body[guard]! Thi[s ......] them [...]"
o 14'14'	[a-na] ^mKAM-eš—DINGIR LÚ^v.SAG ⸢iq^*⸣-[ṭi-bu-ni]
o 15'15'	[ma]-a še^*-e-ṣi ina ŠU.2 LÚ^v.qur-[bu-te]
o 16'16'	[šu]-kun-šú ma-a an-ni-[x x x]
o 17'17'	[x x x]-šu-nu ⸢ma⸣-[a x x x x x]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	[x x x] x x [x x x x x]
r 2'2'	[x x x] še x [x x x x x]
r 3'3'	[x] KÁ.DINGIR.⸢RA⸣.[KI x x x x]	(r 3) [...] Babylo[n ......]
r 4'4'	^m⸢e^*⸣-reš—DINGIR ša [x x x x]	(r 4) Ereš-ilu who [......]
r 5'5'	ša URU.ar-zu^*-ḫi-[na x x x]	(r 5) of Arzuhi[na ......]
r 6'6'	ù LUGAL be-lí ú-sa-[ḫir]	(r 6) but the king my lord gave it back to Il-yada'.
r 7'7'	a-na ^mDINGIR—ia-da-aʾ it-⸢ti-din⸣

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/P334441/.