The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimru Brett Hendrickson has undergone a tremendous transformation

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The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimru Brett Hendrickson has undergone a tremendous transformationThe important corpus of Neo Assyrian political and administrative letters discovered in ancient Calah (present day Nimrud) by Sir Max Mallowan in the early 1950s has been partially accessible to Assyriologists in marvellous hand copies and preliminary transliterations and translations since 1955, thanks to the pioneering efforts of the late H. W. F. Saggs. Nevertheless, his long awaited edition of the entire corpus, which appeared in 2001, left a