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SAA 19 023. Hiram Deported after Sacrilegious Act (CTN 5 p. 154)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the k]ing, my lord: you[r] serva[nt] Qurdi-Aššur-lamur. (3) Nabû-šezib from Tyre has sent me this sealed Aramaic document, saying: "Let it be sent to the Palace." I have sent it to the Palace. (8) [H]i[r]am cut down the sacred tree of his temple on the acropolis of Sidon planning to transport it to Tyre, but I had him deported. The sacred tree that he felled is at the foot of the mountain; it has been smothered [(...)]. (r 1) Nabû-šezib [...] (r 2) [... H]iram has fallen [into the hands of] his (Nabû-šezib's) [servant]s. (r 4) N[ow] the [...] official has brought out these [...]s. (r 6) Let the captives who are coming to Immiha set out and come. Their seed is cultivated; they should come to their sickles.
Source: Luukko, M. 2012. The Correspondence of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud. SAA 19. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa19/P224463/
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Transliteration
[a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ia / ⸢ARAD-ka⸣ mqur-di—aš-šur—IGI / ka-ni-ku an-ni-tú KUR.ár-mi-tú / mdPA—še-zib ⸢TAv⸣ ŠÀ-bi URU.ṣur-ri / ⸢ú⸣-se-bi-⸢la⸣ ma-a ina É.GAL / ⸢lu-še⸣-bi-lu-ši ina É.GAL / [ú]-se*-bi*-la-še / m⸢ḫi-ru*⸣-mu : e-qu / ša É—DINGIR-ni-MEŠ-šú / ša SAG URU.ṣi-du-u-ni / i-ti-kis ⸢:⸣ ma-a a-na URU.ṣur-ri / la-an-tú-uḫ a-⸢sa⸣-par / ú-sa-ag-li-ú-šú / e-qu : ša i-⸢ki-su⸣-u-ni / ina GÌR KUR-e…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P224463.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Mikko Luukko, The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud (State Archives of Assyria, 19), 2012. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, 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/P224463/..
Translation excerpted from Luukko, M. 2012. The Correspondence of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud. SAA 19. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa19/P224463/.
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