Position in chronology
SAA 19 047. Dispute of Three Towns in the West (CTN 5 p. 313)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the k]ing, my l[or]d: [yo]ur [servant] Sulaya. Good [heal]th t[o] my [lo]rd! (4) Šamaš-naṣir, the deputy of Aššur-rema[nn]i has come [to] me, sa[ying]: "The king has given me the towns of Taku, Lulubani and Mila. Bring out your people so that I can bring my people in." (11) I refused to give up the towns, saying: "Until I see the king's messenger, I will cultivate [the tow]ns." (15) The king know[s] that Pirriya is not a subsoil-plough household; water is hard there. It is a shepherding household: pigs and deers are strong there. All the arable field[s] that can be cultivated [there…
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/P224493/
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Transliteration
[a-na] ⸢LUGAL be-lí⸣-ia / [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ m⸢su⸣-la-a.a / ⸢lu⸣ [DI]-⸢mu a-na EN⸣-ia / mdUTU—PAB ⸢LÚv⸣.02-ú / ša maš-šur—rém-⸢an-ni⸣ [ina] ⸢IGI⸣-ia / i-tal-ka ⸢ma⸣-[a] 03 URU-MEŠ-ni / URU.⸢ta⸣-ku ⸢URU.lu-lu-ba?⸣-ni / URU.mi-la-[a?] ma-a ⸢LUGAL⸣ / i-ta-an-[na] ⸢ma⸣-a UN-MEŠ-ka / še-ṣi-i-a UN-MEŠ-ia / lu-še-ri-bi la a-ma-gúr / URU-MEŠ-ni la a-da-an / nu-ku a-⸢di* LÚv?.A—KIN LUGAL⸣ / a-mar-u-ni…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P224493.
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/P224493/..
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/P224493/.
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