Position in chronology
SAA 19 198. Building a Fort (CTN 5 p. 237)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 19(Beginning destroyed) (2) [Con]cerning the city Issete [and ......], about which the king wrote to me: "[......] (4) according to the same 5 men [......] (5) water for them to drink ...[... ...].... (6) What we are building is all right [......] (7) a palace [......]. We are also building a fort [...] and will pl[ace] guardsmen there. [L]et pack animals for the guards come up here [...]. (10) As to what the king, [my lord, wrote to me]: "The anima[ls ......] (Rest destroyed or too broken for translation)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 19 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x] ŠÀ? ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] / ⸢TAv⸣ UGU URU.01-te ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL iš-pur-an-ni ma-a ⸢x x⸣+[x x x x] / pi-⸢it⸣-ti 05-ma LÚ.⸢ERIM-MEŠ x⸣ bi? ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / A-MEŠ a-na NAG-šú-nu ⸢x x⸣ [x]-⸢ṣu-ú⸣-[ni?] / ša ni-ra-ṣip-u-ni ta-ri-⸢ṣi⸣ [x]+⸢x-a ú? x⸣-ti-ma / É.GAL ⸢ki?⸣ [x]+⸢x⸣ ma URU.bir-⸢te? URU.x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣-a-te / ⸢ni⸣-ra-ṣip-pi LÚ.ERIM-MEŠ ša EN.NUN ina ⸢ŠÀ⸣-bi / ⸢niš⸣-[kun ù?]…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P393665.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Kalhu (mod. Nimrud) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P393665). 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/P393665/.
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