SAA 19 097. Appointment of a Vice Governor (CTN 5 p. 259)[via saao/saa19]
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oo | beginning broken away | |
o 1'1' | ⸢ma-a x x x x x⸣ [x x] | (1) [The king, my lord, wrote to me], saying: "[Appoint a ...] whom you [trust] to vice governorship, and appoint the rest [t]o [...]", so I appointed the [...] of Aššur-[...], the [lega]te of the city Ki[..., to vice governor]ship. [...] the shepherd [NN ...]. |
o 2'2' | ⸢ša ta-x x⸣ [x x x] | |
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o 5'5' | pi-⸢qi-di x⸣ [x] ⸢x x⸣ ú | |
o 6'6' | ša maš-šur—⸢x x LÚv.qe-pu⸣ | |
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o 8'8' | ap-ti-⸢qi⸣-di ina? [x x]+⸢x⸣ [x]+⸢x⸣ [x] | |
o 9'9' | (9) I ma[de clear] to him the responsibility of the job that I have given to him. | |
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o 12'12' | (12) with those who [...] | |
o 13'13' | LÚv.⸢02-ú⸣ [x x x x] | (13) the vice governor [...] |
rest broken away | ||
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rr | beginning broken away | |
r 1'1' | (r 1) Now he has lef[t the king’s] t[asks ......] and has go[ne] to Arrapha. | |
r 2'2' | ur-ta-am-[me x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] | |
r 3'3' | ⸢a-na⸣ URU.⸢arrap-ḫa⸣ / it-⸢ta-lak⸣ [o?] | |
r 4'4' | (r 4) The king, m[y] lord, sends me everywhere but there is nobody in my rear. Let a messenger of the king my lord come, let them make the king’s tasks clear to him, and let him d[o] his work. | |
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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/P224410/.