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SAA 19 124

  • CDLI P393691
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Excavation no.: ND 02391
  • Primary publication(s): CTN 5 p. 71

Details

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

Date

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

Sender Information

  • Sender: (unknown)
  • Location: Babylonia
  • Recipient: the [palace sc]ribe

SAA 19 124. Sacrifices before Bel and Zarpanitu (CTN 5 p. 71)[via saao/saa19]

Obverse
o 1o 1

IM*.DUB* [x x x x]

(1) A tab[let of NN] to the [palace sc]ribe, his lord.

o 22

a-na .DUB.SAR[É.GAL]

o 33

be--šú UDU.SISKUR.SISKUR-[MEŠ]

(3) (As to) the sacrifice[s] about which my lord wrote, I have presented one ram before Be[l and] one ram before Z[arpanitu]. Ma[r-biti] stood [...]

o 44

šá be- -pu-ra [o]

o 55

01.en UDU.NÍTA IGI d.EN [o]

o 66

01.en UDU.NÍTA IGI dzar-[pa-ni-tum]

o 77

at-ta-din dDUMU*[É?]

o 88

it-ta-ši-iz [x x]

o 99

ù ŠÀ-bi ib-[tal-ṭa]

(9) and my heart [was] re[vived ......]

o 1010

[x]+x x+[x x x x]

rest broken away

(Break)

Reverse
rbeginning broken away

r 1'1'

la i-x+[x x x ina IGI]

(r 1) not [...].

r 2'2'

d.AG u d[AMAR.UTU? a-na be--ia]

(r 2) I have bless[ed my lord before] Nabû and [Marduk].

r 3'3'

ak-ta-rab [x x x]

r 4'4'

dAMAR.UTU u d[zar-pa-ni-tum]

(r 4) May Marduk and [Zarpanitu] ble[ss the palace] scri[be], my lord!

r 5'5'

a-na .DUB.SAR[É.GAL]

r 6'6'

be--ia lik-ru-[bu]

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/P393691/.