SAA 19 077. Itu’eans Requested (CTN 5 p. 136)[via saao/saa19]
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| rr | beginning broken away | |
| r 1'1' | ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r 2'2' | (r 2) to the k[ing, my lord ...] | |
| r 3'3' | (r 3) As to [the chief cupbearer, to whom] the Šub[ri]an [had written]: "[Send] 300 [It]u'eans!", the chief cupbearer w[rote to me ...]: "The Šubrian has writ[ten] that I should send him 300 [It]u'eans." | |
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| r 8'8' | ⸢ma⸣-a 03 me LÚv.[i-tu]-⸢u⸣-a.a še-bi-[la] | |
| r 9'9' | (r 9) I wrote to the chief [cu]pbe[arer] as follows: "Write to the Šubrian like this: "Instead of requesting Itu’eans from me, send (them) to me, and (then) I will come." | |
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| r 15'15' | (r 15) Perhaps the king, my lord, will say: "Is there any enemy?" There is no enemy at all. | |
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| r 17'17' | (r 17) The king has much delayed answering me. Let me come to the king, my lord, and see the king, my lord! | |
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| r 20'20' | (r 20) If I do not come (back) here, (already) in the night of the next day the king's people [will challen]ge me, (so) let me come and see the king, my lord. | |
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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/P224429/.