Position in chronology
SAA 19 188. Six Criminals Terrorizing the Town of Nashur-Bel (CTN 5 p. 223)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 19(Beginning destroyed) (2) [NN] (and) Muq[alli]l-kabti, total two servants of the chief cupbearer from Našmedi; (7) Adad-killanni (and) his son, total two servants of the priest of Dur-Illil; (11) Tatû from Kapar-Ilu-bani, a servant of the recruitment officer Ambatî; (r 3) Ahu-iddina [fr]om Singara, a servant of the chief cupbearer. (r 6) In all six criminals, they have terrorized the town of Nashur-Bel.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 19 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x] / ⸢md⸣[x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / mmu-⸢qa-lil⸣—IDIM / PAB ⸢02⸣ ARAD-MEŠ-ni / ša LÚv.GAL—KAŠ.LUL / ša URU.⸢na⸣-áš-me-di / mdIM—⸢ki⸣-la-ni / DUMU-šú / PAB 02 ARAD-MEŠ-ni / ša LÚv.SANGA ša URU.BÀD—dBE / mta-tu-⸢ú⸣ / ša URU.ŠE—mDINGIR—ba-ni / ⸢ARAD⸣ ša mam-ba-ti-i / LÚv.mu-šar-kis / mPAB—SUM-na / ⸢ša⸣ URU.si-in-ga-ar / ARAD ⸢ša⸣ GAL—KAŠ.LUL / PAB 06 LÚv.LUL-MEŠ / URU.ša—mNIGIN—EN / ig-dal-du
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P224404.
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/P224404/..
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/P224404/.
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