SAA 19 134. Horses and Troops to Borsippa and Dilbat (CTN 5 p. 63)[via saao/saa19]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) Your servant Nabû-damiq: I would gladly die for the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! Say to the king, my lord: | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | (5) Concerning the orders that the king gave me, things have developed nicely in front of me. Now the king should quickly send the caravan of Nabû-bani and 500 horses here, so that those who are around us can go to Borsippa. | |
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ù 05 me ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | (12) Also, a royal messenger [should c]ome into the presence of Yaqiru, the sheikh of the Li['tamu], to summon men to protect the civilians, and they should go up to Dilbat before us. Perhaps it will be possible to enter Borsippa. The king [sho]uld know (this); it is only (a matter) to the army, to the king and to our mission. | |
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| o 1616 | ||
| Reverse | ||
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| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | ||
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | ||
| 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/P393675/.