SAA 19 085. “What Are the King my Lord’s Orders?” (CTN 5 p. 48)[via saao/saa19]


Obverse
o 1o 1	⸢a⸣-na LUGAL be-lí-⸢ía⸣	(1) To the king, [m]y lord: your servant Aššur-šallimanni. Good health to the kin[g], my lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^maš-šur—šal-lim-an-ni
o 33	lu-u DI-mu a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí-ía
o 44	ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí ṭè-e-mu	(4) As to the order that the king, my lord, gave me: "Go, [let] them [occ]upy the fort."
o 55	iš-kun-na-ni-ni
o 66	ma-a a-lik bir-ti
o 77	[lu]-⸢ṣa⸣-bi-tú ⸢LUGAL⸣ be^?-⸢lí⸣	(7) The king, my lord
o 88	[x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x]	(7) The king, my lord
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	[x x x x x x]+⸢x x x x⸣
r 2'2'	[x x x] ⸢x x x⸣	(r 2) "Bring me [......], or I will immediately go to the Palace."
r 3'3'	bi-la-ni ma-a ú-la-a <$be-lí$>
r 4'4'	e-ti-⸢qi⸣ ina É.GAL
r 5'5'	al-lak mì-nu	(r 5) What are the king my lord's orders?
r 6'6'	ša LUGAL be-lí <$ṭè$>	(r 5) What are the king my lord's orders?
r 7'7'	i-qa-bu-u-ni

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/P393637/.