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SAA 19 076. “Aššur and Šamaš Will Deliver Ṭurušpa into the King’s Hands” (CTN 5 p. 136)
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High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant [Aššu]r-belu-[...]. The very best of health t[o the kin]g, [my lord]! (4) This month the ki[n]g, my lord, will go up to Urarṭu! Aššur (and) Šamaš have delivered Ṭurušpâ into the hands of the king, my lord! (7) Let the king, my lord, launch his military campaign against Urarṭu, conquer Ṭurušpâ and let the king, my lord, estab[li]sh his name for[e]ver. (10) Perhaps the king, my lord, will retrieve and give back the ruins of [...]. (12) I have rece[iv]ed the sealed letter which the [k]ing, my lord, sen[t] to me, and I have g[one and] asked Par[n]i-aldê…
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/P224457/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-⸢ía ARAD-ka⸣ / [maš]-⸢šur—EN⸣—[x] lu DI-mu ⸢a⸣-[na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ / [EN-ía] ⸢a⸣—dan-niš a—dan-niš / ⸢ur-ḫu?⸣ a-ni-ú ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN a-na KUR.URI / ⸢e-li⸣ aš-šur dUTU ⸢URU⸣.ṭu-⸢ru⸣-uš-pa-a / ina ŠU.2 LUGAL EN-ía ⸢is⸣-sa-⸢ka⸣-nu-ma / LUGAL EN KASKAL-šú ⸢a-na⸣ KUR.URI liš-kun / URU.ṭu-ru-uš-⸢pa-a li⸣-ik-šu-du / LUGAL EN šu-⸢un⸣-šú a-⸢na da⸣-ra-a-ti / liš-⸢kun⸣ i—su-ri ⸢LUGAL EN⸣ ḫar-ba-na-te /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P224457.
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/P224457/..
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/P224457/.
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