Position in chronology
SAA 19 117. Boats, Water-Skin Rafts, and Accusations (CTN 5 p. 86)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] who/which were plundered. P[N ...] (3) Nabû-ahu-iddina [......] (4) and Kudurru, the [......] (5) of the governor of [......] (6) boats together with those of G[N ...] (7) and 20 water-skin rafts [......] (8) with man[y] men [......] (9) after [he had arrived] safely (10) I appointed him as th[e ......] (11) which are in the quay of ships [...] (Break) (r 1) all the men [...] (r 2) I do not tel[l] to the king [...] (r 3) [...] have become available; who is taking [them] away? (r 4) And now [...] is blaming me and I have become an outcast [and ... on account…
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/P393685/
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Transliteration
⸢x x x x x⸣ [x x x x x] / šá ḫab-ta mna-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / md.AG—ŠEŠ—SUM-na ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / ù mNÍG.GUB LÚ.⸢mu?⸣-[x x x x] / šá LÚ.EN.NAM šá URU.⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / GIŠ.MÁ-MEŠ a-di šá ⸢KUR?⸣ [x x x] / ù 20 KUŠ.maš-ki-⸢ru⸣ [x x x] / ina ERIM-MEŠ ma-aʾ-du-⸢ti⸣ [x x] / ina šá-lim-ti ki-i ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / ap-te-qid-šú a-⸢na LÚ? x⸣+[x x x x] / šá ina KAR ⸢MÁ-MEŠ⸣ [x x x x x] / ⸢x⸣ [x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x] /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P393685.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Kalhu (mod. Nimrud) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P393685). source
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/P393685/.
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