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SAA 19 032

  • CDLI P393693
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Excavation no.: ND 02376
  • Primary publication(s): CTN 5 p. 245

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: Qurd[i-Aššur(-lamur)]
  • Location: Ṣimirra
  • Recipient: the king
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SAA 19 032. (no title) (CTN 5 p. 245)[via saao/saa19]

Obverse
o 1o 1

[a]-na LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia]

(1) [T]o the king, [my lo]rd: your [ser]vant Qurd[i-Aššur]. Good health to the kin[g, my lord]!

o 22

⸢ARAD⸣-ka mqur-⸢di⸣—[aš-šur]

o 33

lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL [EN-ia]

o 44

ša LUGAL iš-pur-[an-ni]

(4) Concerning what the king wrote [to me]: "Why [did] the men [...] like [this]?"

o 55

⸢ma⸣-a a-ta-a ki-⸢i⸣ [x x x]

o 66

⸢LÚ?⸣.ERIM?-MEŠ [x x x x x]

o 77

ša ERIM-MEŠ [x x x x x]

(7) That the men [......]

rest broken away

(Rest destroyed)

Reverse
rr as far as preserved, 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/P393693/.