SAA 19 216. “Why Did I Appoint You?” (CTN 5 p. 250)[via saao/saa19]
| Obverse | ||
| oo | beginning broken away | |
| o 1'1' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| o 2'2' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| o 3'3' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| o 4'4' | ⸢šu-ú lil⸣-[li-ka x x x x x x] | (4) he should co[me ......] |
| o 5'5' | (5) he said: "Bring [......] ...[......] | |
| o 6'6' | ú-bil ma KU [x x x x x x x x] | |
| o 7'7' | ma a-na ma-⸢ṣar⸣-te ⸢it?⸣-[ta-lak x x x x x] | (7) "w[ent] to (his) guard. [... why] did I appoint you? [......] |
| o 8'8' | ⸢ap?⸣-qí-id-ka ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| o 9'9' | (9) "to guard [......] | |
| o 10'10' | (10) "Is it true? [......] | |
| o 11'11' | (11) The might of the king [will …] his [… …] | |
| o 12'12' | [x x x x] ⸢É* x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| o 13'13' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| rest broken away | ||
| Reverse | ||
| rr | beginning broken away | |
| r 1'1' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r 2'2' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r 3'3' | ku [x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r 4'4' | ⸢lib⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r 5'5' | GIŠ.⸢GIGIR⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x] | (r 5) chari[ot ......] |
| r 6'6' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| rest broken away |
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/P393695/.