SAA 19 049. Should They Cross the River or be Detained? (CTN 5 p. 245)[via saao/saa19]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my lord: yo[ur] servant Aššur-ila'i. Good he[alth] to the king, [my] lord! | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| o 44 | (4) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Arrest the caravans! Until [... have ente]red, [nobody] shall cr[oss] the river!" | |
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | [x x x]-⸢bu⸣-ni-ni | |
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x] | |
| rest broken away | ||
| Reverse | ||
| rr | beginning broken away | |
| r 1'1' | [x x]+⸢x MEŠ⸣ [x x x x] | |
| r 2'2' | ⸢x x⸣-ME-ni [o] | (r 2) The ...s are coming to meet the king, my lord. Should I let them go to cross the river or detain them? |
| r 3'3' | ||
| r 4'4' | ||
| r 5'5' | ||
| r 6'6' | ||
| r 7'7' | ||
| r 8'8' | (r 8) Let the king, my lord, write me what (his) orders are. | |
| r 9'9' |
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/P393678/.