SAA 15 268. Assyrians and Tabaleans Sold for Money in Sadiru (ABL 0602)[via saao/saa15]
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| o 1'1' | ⸢LÚv⸣.[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 — |
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| o 9'9' | (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]. | |
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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/.