Position in chronology
SAA 19 087. Power Struggles between Chaldean Leaders (CTN 5 p. 25)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...] are running away [......] (2) he [refu]ses to come. His messengers (are going) to [Mukin-zeri and the messenger]s of Mukin-zeri are going to him. A le[tter of Za]kir was brought to Merodach-baladan [with the following message]: "Who do you think you are among the chieftains of Chaldea who are [l]eft for you? Why do you remain inactive (while) the Chaldean land is getting paralyzed? Is it pleasing to you that Balassu is giving Chaldea [to] destruction?" (8) They intercepted the letter which was brought to Merodach-baladan and read it [in] our [pr]esence. But…
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/P224432/
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Transliteration
[x x x x] ⸢i⸣-ḫal-⸢li-qu⸣ [x x x x x x x] / [la i-ma]-gúr la il-la-ka LÚv.A—KIN-MEŠ-šú ina ⸢UGU⸣ [mGIN—NUMUN] / [LÚv.A—KIN]-MEŠ ša mGIN—NUMUN ina UGU-šú il-la-ku-ni ⸢e-gir⸣-[tum] / [ša mza]-kir ina UGU mdAMAR.⸢UTU⸣—DUMU.UŠ—SUM-na na-ṣu-ni / [ma-a] ma—at-ta-a ina ŠÀ LÚv.re-eʾ-sa-ni ša KUR.kal-di / [ša] ⸢re⸣-ḫa-ka-ni ma-a a-ta-a qa-la-ka KUR.kal-du i-sa-am-mu / [ma-a ina] ⸢pa⸣-ni-ka ma-ḫe-e-re…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P224432.
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/P224432/..
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/P224432/.
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