SAA 19 002. “You Are my Deputy” (CTN 5 p. 240)[via saao/saa19]

Obverse
o 1o 1

[a-bat LUGAL a-na v].tur-ta-ni

(1) [The king's word to the] commander-in-[chief]:

o 22

[DI-mu a-na URU].bi-rat-ia

(2) My forts, my [...] (and) my horses [are well].

o 33

[x] x x x-ia ANŠE.KUR-MEŠ-ia

o 44

[UD-mu] mu-šú* a-na UD-MEŠ-ia v.GAL-ia

(4) [Day and] night during my reign, you shall be my magnate (and) my deputy. You shall stand in my place; guarding you is for guarding me.

o 55

[u] v.02-ia at-ta ku-mu-u-a

o 66

[EN].NUN-ka a-na EN.NUN-ia

o 77

[la ta]-ši-aṭ* EN.NUN ú-ṣur

(7) [Don't be neg]ligent but keep watch for me.

o 88

[x x]+x ib UD-mu ša [e-gír-]

(8) [...] ... The day [you se]e [this letter ......]

o 99

[an-ni- ta]-mar*-ú-[ni x x x x]

(traces of 5 lines)

(Rest destroyed or too broken for translation)

rest broken away

Reverse
rparts of three wedges in the middle of three successive lines

rest uninscribed


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/P393605/.