SAA 21 010. Sparing Babylon (CT 53 496)

~660 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313909

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 21

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1') [...... Ba]bylon (2') [......] words (3') [...... i]s placed (4') [...... to s]pare (5') [......]when/if (6') [......] Assyria (7') [......] his [...] (8') [......] He may not eat fish, (9') [he shall drink] beer, and he will be well. (10') [I swear by Aššur and] Marduk, my gods, (11') [that ......] Elam (Rest destroyed) (completely broken away)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).

Transliteration

[x x x x x x x TIN].⸢TIR.KI⸣ / [x x x x x x x x] dib-bi / [x x x x x x x] ⸢šá⸣-kin / [x x x x x x x] ⸢ga⸣-ma-al / [x x x x x x x] ki-i / [x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ KUR—AN.ŠÁR.KI / [x x x x x x x x]-ti-i-šú / [x x x x x x x] KU₆-MEŠ NU KÚ! KAŠ / [NAG x x x x x x]-ma AL.SILIM / [x x x x x x d]AMAR.UTU DINGIR-MEŠ-e-a / [x x x x x x x] KUR.NIM.MA.KI

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P313909.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313909). source
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 2018. The Correspondence of Assurbanipal, Part I: Letters from Assyria, Central Babylonia, and Vassal States. SAA 21. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa21/P313909/.

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