Position in chronology
SAA 19 020. Construction Works (CTN 5 p. 287)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 19(Beginning destroyed) (3) [As to the order] that the king, my lord, gave me: "Break the [f]allow [g]round and [c]ut the hay" - [the f]allow ground has been broke[n] and two cubits high hay has been cut. All the corn and rice has been harv[ested. Real]ly, I ...[......] (10) one homer of sesame oil to [......]... (11) Ṣabu-d[amqu ...] the fo[r]t [...]... (12) [... o]f the Arsazaeans [......] (13) each [x] cubits to the four directions. (14) 6 depots of broad bricks for 6 towers, 10 brick (depots of) broad bricks for 4 tow[er]s (and) 10 (depots of) bricks before the city wall for ... each 20…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 19 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x]+⸢x x⸣ [x x] / [ina UGU ṭè-me] ⸢ša LUGAL⸣ EN ⸢iš-ku⸣-na-⸢ni⸣ / [ma-a] ⸢ka-ra-ap⸣-ḫi ma-aḫ-ḫa-ṣa / [ma]-a pu-ú-e ⸢na*-ki⸣-si / ⸢ka⸣-ra-ap-ḫi maḫ-ṣu 02 KÙŠ / ⸢pu⸣-ú-e ⸢na⸣-ak-su ŠE gab-bu / ŠE.LIL-MEŠ i-⸢ta*⸣-ṣa-⸢du? ket?⸣-tú / a-na-ku ⸢ŠEŠ?⸣ [x]+⸢x x te?⸣ [x x] ma / 01 ANŠE ŠE.GIŠ.Ì a-na ⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣ [x]+⸢x⸣ [x]+⸢x ṣi? x⸣ / mERIM—⸢SIG₅⸣ :.…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P224459.
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/P224459/..
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/P224459/.
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