Subject: Archival Documents from the Biblical World; Akkadian Archival Documents; Letters; Assyria
A Letter Concerning the Grain Tax of the Samarians (3.97)
Subject: 2 Kgs 17:4–6
(lines 1–3)
To Nabû-duru-uṣur, a letter (lit. “tablet”) from Arīḫu,1 good health to my son.
(lines 4- r. 3)
As to the grain tax2 of the Samarians,3 a my ⌜lord⌝ should s⌜end a report⌝ — ⌜whether⌝ it [exists] ⌜or not⌝ — so that we may be content about (it).4 The …
Commentary
This letter has the horizontally oblong “report” format (Parpola 1987:170).