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SAA 19 094

  • CDLI P393641
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Excavation no.: ND 02701
  • Primary publication(s): CTN 5 p. 141

Details

  • Provenience: Nimrud (Kalhu) (Pleiades ID: 894019)
  • Archive: 006 - Northwest Palace, Room ZT 4
  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
  • Genre: Administrative Letter
  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Assyrian

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Tiglath-pileser III (744–727 BC)
  • Dated: no

Sender Information

  • Sender: Nergal-a[šared?]
  • Location: Eastern Assyria
  • Recipient: the king
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SAA 19 094. Receiving and Passing on Horses (CTN 5 p. 141)[via saao/saa19]

Obverse
o 1o 1

a-na LUGAL be--ia

(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nergal-a[šared]. Good health to the king, my lo[rd]!

o 22

ARAD-ka mdMAŠ.MAŠSAG.[KAL?]

o 33

lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-a

o 44

DI-mu a-na URU.ḪAL.ṢU-MEŠ

(4) All the forts are [w]ell.

o 55

gab-bu TAv .GALka-ri

(5) I have received the horses from the chief of trade whom the king, my lord, sent to me, and have delivered them. All the [ki]ng's servants are well.

o 66

ša LUGAL be- -pur-ni-ni

o 77

ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ a-ta-ḫar

o 88

a-ti-din DI-mu

o 99

a-na .ARAD-MEŠ-ni ša LUGAL

o 1010

gab-bu ú-di-ni

(10) I have [no]t yet rece[ived the r]est of the hors[es fr]om the la[nd of ...]

o 1111

re-eḫ-ti ANŠE.KUR.[RA-MEŠ]

o 1212

[TAv] ŠÀ-bi KUR.[x x]

o 1313

[la]-a a-maḫ-[ḫar]

perhaps one line broken away

(Break)

Reverse
rbeginning broken away

r 1'1'

URU-šú-nu [x x x x]

(r 1) their city [...]

r 2'2'

ša URU-MEŠ-ni dan-nu-[ti]

(r 2) Those who led the fortified towns of the river basin of the House of Wargi - their loss was 370 killed.

r 3'3'

ina ÍD-ti ša É

r 4'4'

mú-ar-gi ir-te-du-u-ni

r 5'5'

03 me 70 de-ek-ta-šú-nu

r 6'6'

LUGAL be- liš-al

(r 6) The king, my lord, may ask (about it).

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/P393641/.