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SAA 19 048. Information from a Deserter (CTN 5 p. 229)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the kin[g, my lo]rd: [yo]ur serva[nt] Aššur-ila'i. Good health to the king, my [lo]rd! (4) The [f]orts a[n]d [se]rvants of the ki[n]g, my lord, are we[l]l. (6) As to what the kin[g], my [lo]rd, wro[t]e to me: "[Le]t [your] guar[d] be [s]trong." The gods of the king, my lord, have been returned. The king, my lord, can be glad. (9) Bur-il of Gu[bl]a, a servant of Anu-[...], has deserted [t]o [me]. I am herewith sending him to the k[ing], m[y] lord. (As to) the news of the town of Ba[r-Ur]i, he told me as follows: "They are selling half a (homer of) b[arl]ey fo[r ...] shekels of silver.…
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/P224456/
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Transliteration
⸢a⸣-na ⸢LUGAL EN⸣-[ia] / ⸢ARAD-ka⸣ maš-šur—DINGIR-⸢a⸣.a / lu ⸢DI⸣-mu a-na LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-ia / DI-⸢mu⸣ a-na ⸢URU.bi⸣-ra-a-ti / ⸢a-na LÚv.ARAD?-MEŠ?-ni⸣ ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ia / ⸢ša LUGAL EN⸣ iš-⸢pur⸣-an-ni ma-a EN.⸢NUN⸣-[ka?] / ⸢lu? da?-na?-at⸣ : DINGIR-MEŠ ša LUGAL EN-ia / ⸢ú⸣-ti-ru ŠÀ ša LUGAL EN-ia / ⸢lu⸣ DÙG.GA mbur—DINGIR : ša URU.⸢gu⸣-[ub]-⸢lu⸣ / LÚv.ARAD ša ma-nu—⸢x⸣+[x x ina] ⸢IGI?⸣-[ia] /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P224456.
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/P224456/..
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/P224456/.
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