Position in chronology
SAA 19 149. Take Over the Kingship! (CTN 5 p. 12)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Your servant NN]: I would [gladly] die [for the king, m]y [lord! Say to the king], my [lord]: (4) I am (hereby) writin[g to the king], my [l]ord: "What shall I do?" (6) [What I t]old [the king] (was): "Be[l has said]: 'Take over the [king]ship by m[y] command! [With]out me, [who] can ta[ke over] the kingship, [and who] has (ever) taken over the kingship?'" (9) E[arlier] the king’s [scho]lar had told him: "[Exer]cise [the kingship]!" The king sent h[im to me ...] (Break) (r 2) [...] the king sent to me [...] (r 3) [...]... who from [...] (r 4) [...]...[...] (r 5) [...]... Now [...] (r 6) [...] lap ...[...] (r 7) [...] his [...] in the town of [......] (Rest destroyed or too broken for translation)
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/P224378/
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Transliteration
[ARAD-ka mx x x x x] / [a-na di-na-an LUGAL be-lí]-⸢ia lul-lik⸣ / [um-ma-a a-na LUGAL be-lí]-ia-a-⸢ma⸣ / [a-na LUGAL] ⸢be-lí⸣-ía al-tap-⸢ra⸣ / [um]-⸢ma⸣ mi-nam-ma ep-pu-uš [o?] / [šá a-na LUGAL] ⸢aq⸣-bu-ú um-ma / d.[EN iq-ta-bi] / [um-ma LUGAL]-ú-tu i-ši a-na ⸢pi-ia⸣ / [man-nu ša]-⸢la⸣-nu-ú-a LUGAL-ú-tu i-⸢na⸣-[áš-ši] / [x x] LUGAL-ú-ti iš-ši i-⸢na⸣ [maḫ-ri-i?] / [LÚ.um]-⸢man⸣-ni LUGAL…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P224378.
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/P224378/..
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/P224378/.
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