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SAA 19 138. Mukin-zeri Instigating Babylonians (CTN 5 p. 18)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Your [ser]vant Dummuq[u]: I wo[uld gladly] die for the king, my lord! May Nergal and Laṣ bless the king, my lord! Say to the king, my lord: (5) I am (hereby) sending my tablet to greet the king, my lord. The temples and the city of the king, my lord, are well. (8) I b[le]ss the king, [my lor]d, eve[ry] day before Nergal and Laṣ. (10) News of Bab[ylon]: Mukin-ze[ri] has entered Babylon from Bit-Amukani having 10 horses with him. (r 1) He greeted the Babylonian[s], saying: "I have ...ed 600 horses insi[de] Assyria (and) ...ed (them) into m[y] country. Do[n]’t be afra[id]!" (r 7) The Babyl[oni]ans did not want [...] but went up to [...]. When I found (this) out, I wro[te] to the king, my lord.
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/P224465/
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Transliteration
⸢ARAD-ka⸣ mdu-um-mu-⸢qu⸣ / a-na di-na-an LUGAL be-lí-ía ⸢lul⸣-[lik] / dU.GUR u dla-aṣ a-⸢na⸣ / LUGAL be-lí-ía lik-ru-bu um-ma-⸢a⸣ / a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía-a-ma ṭup-pi / a-na šul-mu LUGAL be-lí-ía al-tap-⸢ra⸣ / šul-mu a-na É.KUR-⸢ra-ti⸣ / u URU ⸢šá⸣ LUGAL be-lí-ía UD-mu-⸢us⸣-[su] / ina ⸢ma-ḫar dU.GUR u dla-aṣ⸣ / LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[lí] ⸢a-kar⸣-rab ⸢ṭè⸣-e-⸢mu⸣ / šá TIN.[TIR].⸢KI⸣ mGIN—<<GIŠ>>—⸢NUMUN⸣ / ù 10…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P224465.
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/P224465/..
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/P224465/.
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