Position in chronology
SAA 19 105. The Prefect is not Holding Back Any People (CTN 5 p. 206)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-nammir. May Nabû (and) Mard[uk] bless the king, my lord. (7) At this moment they have cross-examined the people and are gathering them, and I am herewith sending (them) to the king, my [lo]rd. (r 1) Earlier on he said to me as follows: "Should he as[k] for the people, I will not hold back even a single one of those in my presence, but will set free and give them all to the king, my lord."
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/P224448/
Why it matters
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL / be-lí-ia / ARAD-ka mdPA—⸢ZÁLAG⸣-ir / dPA dAMAR.⸢UTU⸣ / a-na LUGAL be-⸢lí⸣-ía / lik-ru-bu / an-nu-rig / UN-MEŠ / ú-sa-ni-⸢qu⸣-ni / ú-pa-⸢ḫu-ru⸣ / ⸢a⸣-na-ku ina ⸢UGU⸣ / ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be]-⸢lí⸣-[ía] / ⸢a-sa-ap-ra⸣ / a-na ⸢pa?-ni?-ti?⸣ / ki-i an-ni-i / iq-ṭí-bi-ia ⸢ma⸣-a / UN-MEŠ er-ri-⸢ša-a⸣ / am—mar ina pa-ni-⸢ia-a⸣-ni / ma-a 01-en la a-⸢kal⸣-la / ma-a gab-bu / ú-še-e-ṣa / a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía / a-danan
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P224448.
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/P224448/..
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/P224448/.
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