A tablet representing a message
This tablet represents a letter sent by the commanders of the fortress of the Babylonian town of Šabhanu to the Assyrian king Sargon II. It is one of the few letters that address the king by name to Sargon, King of the Universe.
The text of the letter discovered in northern Iraq and currently preserved in the British Museum to Sargon, King of the Universe: Thus says your servants Heel and Zebedee-El, who guard the king’s castle Šabhanu, their master. The king’s castle is fine. Good health to the king, our master!
Photography by Greta Van Bueller
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