Position in chronology
SAA 19 134. Horses and Troops to Borsippa and Dilbat (CTN 5 p. 63)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 19(1) Your servant Nabû-damiq: I would gladly die for the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! Say to the king, my lord: (5) Concerning the orders that the king gave me, things have developed nicely in front of me. Now the king should quickly send the caravan of Nabû-bani and 500 horses here, so that those who are around us can go to Borsippa. (12) Also, a royal messenger [should c]ome into the presence of Yaqiru, the sheikh of the Li['tamu], to summon men to protect the civilians, and they should go up to Dilbat before us. Perhaps it will be possible to enter Borsippa. The king [sho]uld know (this); it is only (a matter) to the army, to the king and to our mission.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 19 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
⸢ARAD⸣-ka md.AG—SIG₅-iq ⸢a-na di⸣-na-⸢an⸣ / LUGAL be-lí-ia lul-lik d.AG u dAMAR.UTU / a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia lik-ru-bu / um-ma-a a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia-a-ma / a-na UGU ṭè-e-mu šá LUGAL / iš-pu-ra-an-ni i-na / la-mu-ú-a dib-bu ib-ta-nu-ú / en-na ḫa-an-ṭiš ⸢KASKAL⸣ md.AG—ba-ni / ù 05 me ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ / LUGAL liš-pu-ram-ma ša bat-bat-ni / a-na URU.BÁR.SIPA lil-li-ku / ù LÚv.A—KIN šá LUGAL a-na / pa-an…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P393675.
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/P393675/..
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/P393675/.
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