Position in chronology
SAA 19 081. Barley for Captives (CTN 5 p. 49)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 19(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-šallimanni. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to what I wrote to the king, my lord: "I shall be late as I am assembling the people wherever they are." I have (now) asked the sheikhs, and they told me: "Not a single one is left. These are all there are." (10) Now the sheikhs are coming; let the king, my lord, ask the[m]! (12) Rema[n]ni-[Is]sar came up and met us along the stretch that leads to Ka[r]-Aššur. (16) As to what the king, my l[o]rd, wrote to me: "Feed the 6,000 captives in your presence." (19) For how long? (They are) 6,000! Can I…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 19 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-⸢ia⸣ / ARAD-ka maš-šur—DI-a-ni / ⸢lu⸣-u DI-⸢mu⸣ a-na LUGAL be-lí-⸢ia⸣ / ša a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí-ía áš-pu-ra-ni / mu-uk la-am-mar-ku UN-MEŠ / bé-et i-ba-áš-šu-⸢ni⸣ lu-pa-ḫi-ra / a-na LÚv.na-si-ka-⸢ti⸣ áš-sa-al / ma-a 01-en la re-e-ḫe ma-a / an-nu-tim-ma šu-nu / an-nu-rig LÚv.⸢na⸣-si-ka-a-ti / il-⸢la*⸣-ku-ni ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí / liš-al-⸢šu-nu mrém⸣-a-⸢ni⸣—d⸢15⸣ / ina ŠÀ-⸢bi mar-de-ti ša⸣…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P224441.
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/P224441/..
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/P224441/.
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