Position in chronology
SAA 19 125. Babylonia in Turmoil (CTN 5 p. 22)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] I s[ai]d: "Why (is it that) the k[ing has com]e out (but) you are staying at home? The force[s] of the Palace are there." (4) [They said]: "We will not go [ther]e (against Mukin-zeri)." They are very much afraid of him. They will not go inside the area [at any conditi]on. (6) I shall go to them [...]. Mukin-zeri [has en]camped [be]fore me and (is) between (me) and them. I cannot proceed to them, and, therefore, we cannot unite with one another. (9) I sent Yasubaya with cavalry [to] them (with the following message): "Go and tell them to come out. 'Wh[y] are…
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/P224473/
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Transliteration
[x x x x]+⸢x⸣-nu ⸢mu-uk a-ta-a LUGAL⸣ / [it-tu]-⸢ṣi⸣ at-⸢tu⸣-nu ina É kam-mu-sa-⸢ku-nu⸣ / [mu-uk] LÚv.e-mu-⸢qi⸣ ša É.GAL ina ŠÀ-bi / [ma-a ina ŠÀ]-⸢bi⸣ la ni-il-lak pa-al!-ḫu-šu a—dan-niš / [la-áš]-⸢šú⸣ ina ŠÀ-bi-šú la il-lu-ku a-na-ku / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-na pa-ni-šú-nu lal-lik mGIN—NUMUN / [ina pa]-⸢na⸣-tu-u-a ina bi-ri-tu-uš-šú-nu ma-dak-tú / [šá-ki]-⸢in?⸣ la il-lak ina UGU-šú-nu la e-ti-qi /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P224473.
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/P224473/..
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/P224473/.
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