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Page 407 / 470

~675 BCE

·Neo-Assyrian

SAA 4

SAA 04 013. Midas Sending for Troops (AGS 051) [military and political]

(1) Šamaš, great lord, [give me a firm positive answer to what I am asking you]! (2) [M]idas, c[ity] lord of [......] (3) [who has sent] his messengers t[o NN, the troops] (4) of his nephew and the t[roops of ......] (5) to Ilu-takl[ak ......] (6) [...] king [......] (7) [...] sei[zed ......] (8) [... in th]is [y]ear [......] (9) [... Mi]das [......]? (10) [Does your] great [divinity know it]? Is it de[creed and confirmed in a favorable case, by the command of your great divinity, Šamaš], gr[eat lord? Will he who can see, see it? Will he who can hear, hear it]? (12) [Disregard the…

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SAA 04 013. Midas Sending for Troops (AGS 051) [military and political]

SAA 04 015. Fragment Similar to No. 14 (AGS 061) [military and political]

SAA 04 028. Should Esarhaddon Send an Army to Siriš? (AGS 043) [military and political]

SAA 04 034. Should Esarhaddon Send NN with Army to Mannea? (AGS 042) [military and political]

SAA 04 040. Same Tablet as no. 39 (PRT 038) [military and political]

SAA 04 042. Kaštaritu Organizing War (AGS 005) [military and political]

SAA 04 046. Fragment Similar to No. 45 (PRT 069) [military and political]

SAA 04 047. Fragment Similar to No. 43 (PRT 070) [military and political]

SAA 04 058. Should Esarhaddon Send an Aramean Scribe to NN? (PRT 025) [military and political]

SAA 04 061. Will Kaštaritu Defeat Assyrian Troops? (PRT 013) [military and political]

SAA 04 070. Fragment Similar to No. 71 (PRT 019) [military and political]

SAA 04 077. Has the Enemy Captured Ṣiṣṣirtu? (AGS 072) [military and political]

SAA 04 078. Will Chief Eunuch Ša-Nabu-šu Break the Siege of Ṣiṣṣirtu? [military and political]

SAA 04 087. Fragment Similar to No. 84 (AGS 069) [military and political]

SAA 04 091. Fragment Similar to No. 90 (AGS 083) [military and political]

SAA 04 096. Should Esarhaddon Send Ša-Nabu-šu to Plunder ...? [military and political]

SAA 04 097. Fragment Similar to No. 96 [military and political]

SAA 04 101. Should NN be Sent to Lay Siege to and Conquer the City ...? (PRT 011) [military and political]

SAA 04 105. Should the Assyrian Army Go against a City Named on Papyrus? (AGS 113) [military and political]

SAA 04 106. Fragment Similar to No. 105 (AGS 096) [military and political]

SAA 04 118. Fragment of a Military Query (PRT 040) [military and political]

SAA 04 121. Fragment of a Military Query (AGS 073) [military and political]

SAA 04 124. Should Esarhaddon Send NN to ...? (AGS 044) [military and political]

SAA 04 125. Fragment of a Military(?) Query (PRT 068) [military and political]

SAA 04 126. Fragment of a Military(?) Query [military and political]

SAA 04 128. Fragment of a Military(?) Query (PRT 082) [military and political]

SAA 04 132. Will a Plan Written on Papyrus Succeed? (AGS 095+) [military and political]

SAA 04 137. Fragment Similar to Nos. 129-130 [military and political]

SAA 04 140. Fragment Similar to No. 139 (AGS 078) [military and political]

SAA 04 142. Will Anyone Make a Rebellion against Prince Assurbanipal? (PRT 044) [military and political]

SAA 04 149. Should Esarhaddon Appoint Sin-nadin-apli as Crown Prince? (AGS 107) [appointment]

SAA 04 157. Fragment Similar to No. 156 (AGS 119) [appointment]

SAA 04 160. Fragment Similar to No. 156 [appointment]

SAA 04 175. Fragment Similar to No. 156 (PRT 051) [appointment]

SAA 04 176. Fragment Similar to No. 156 (PRT 048) [appointment]

SAA 04 178. Should Prince Assurbanipal Appoint NN to an Office? (PRT 053) [appointment]

SAA 04 179. Fragment Similar to No. 178 [appointment]

SAA 04 186. Medical(?) Query Concerning Prince Assurbanipal [medical]

SAA 04 189. Fragment Similar to No. 188 (PRT 091) [medical]

SAA 04 190. Will the Queen Mother’s Illness Pass? (AGS 101+) [medical]

SAA 04 199. Fragment Similar to No. 187 (PRT 061) [medical]

SAA 04 213. Fragment of a Query (PRT 094) [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 223. Fragment of a Query (PRT 098) [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 235. Fragment of a Query (PRT 080) [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 237. Fragment of a Query [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 238. Fragment of a Query (AGS 053) [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 239. Fragment of a Query (PRT 066) [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 244. Fragment of a Query (PRT 096) [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 245. Fragment of a Query (PRT 097) [unclassifiable]

SAA 04 252. Fragment of a Query [unclassifiable]