Position in chronology
SAA 19 135. “How Could These People Be Wrenched away from the King, My Lord?” (CTN 5 p. 51)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 19(1) Your [serva]nt Nabû-balassu-iqbi: I would gladly die [f]or the king, my lord! May [Na]bû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! Say to the king, my lord: (6) Concerning the clansmen of Dur-ša-Balihaya about whom the king, my lord, wrote, by [Be]l [and Nabû, the god]s of the king, my lord, I do not know (any) sin of theirs. The witnesses did swear (it). (13) (Time) will pass and you will come. Until I send word and whis[per ...] in Dur-ša-Bali[haya] and in the country of [...] (r 1) Eat! I [......] (r 2) ... [......]. (r 3) And when [......]. (r 4) and [...] not [...] them (r 5) [M]y arms…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 19 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢ARAD⸣-ka m⸢d.AG⸣—TIN-su—iq-bi / [a]-na di-na-an LUGAL be-lí-ía / lul-lik d.⸢AG⸣ u dAMAR.UTU a-na / LUGAL be-lí-ía lik-ru-bu / ⸢um⸣-ma-⸢a⸣ a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía-a-ma / áš-šú ⸢ERIM-x-MEŠ⸣ bi-ti / šá BÀD—šá—mdKASKAL.KUR-a-a / šá LUGAL be-⸢lí iš-pu⸣-ra / [d].⸢EN⸣ [u d.AG DINGIR]-⸢MEŠ šá⸣ LUGAL be-lí-ía / lu-ú ⸢ú⸣-du-ú ki-i / ⸢a⸣-ra-šú-nu ⸢i-du-ú⸣ / ši-⸢bu-te⸣ lu i-⸢ta⸣-mu-ú / il-la-⸢ka⸣…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P224464.
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/P224464/..
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/P224464/.
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