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SAA 19 034. Taking Care of the King’s Oxen (CTN 5 p. 211)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Inurta-belu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Take care of the oxen of the Palace in your charge!" (7) The oxen of mine that were assigned to my charge by the Palace are very many. (10) [I] have been petitioning to the king, my lord, telling him that I have no fodder store. (13) (The towns) Gilgimê and Kunanê are/were my fodder stores, but [B]el-Harran-šarru-uṣur has [...] tak[en] their [... f]rom the meadows (and) has [...ed] the utensils [in the to]wns Ilanasa (and) [U]rmu. (r 5) Now let [the king],…
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/P224489/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka mdMAŠ—EN—PAB / ⸢lu⸣-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-⸢ía⸣ / ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí iš-pur-a-ni / ma-a GUD-MEŠ ša É.GAL / ša ina IGI-ka ⸢ma⸣-a ḫi-ṣi-in / ia-ú GUD-MEŠ / pi-⸢qi⸣-tú ⸢ša⸣ É.GAL / ⸢ma⸣-aʾ-⸢du a⸣—dan-niš ina IGI-⸢ía⸣ / [a]-⸢ta⸣-na-ḫar a-na LUGAL / ⸢EN⸣-ia mu-uk / ⸢É⸣—Ú-MEŠ-ia la-šú / URU.gi-il-gi-me-e / ⸢URU.ku?⸣-na-né-⸢e?⸣ / ⸢É⸣—Ú-MEŠ-⸢ia⸣ / [x]-ka-⸢x⸣-šú-nu / [ša?] ⸢ŠÀ⸣…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P224489.
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/P224489/..
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/P224489/.
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