Position in chronology
SAA 21 011. Fragment Relating to Babylon (CT 54 357)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (2') [...] Babyl[on ...] (3') [...] to [...] (4') [...] trus[t (pl.) in ...] (5') [...] I have gi[ven ...] (6') [...] the name of [...] (7') [...] ... [...] (8') [...] you wrot[e ...] (9') [...] ... [...] (10') [... B]abylo[n ...] (Rest destroyed)
Source: 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/P239422/
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Transliteration
[x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x x] ⸢x⸣ TIN.⸢TIR⸣.[KI x x] / [x x x x] a-⸢na⸣ [x x x] / [x x x x] ru-uḫ-[ṣa x x x] / [x x x x] at-ta-[din x x x] / [x x x] ⸢x⸣ MU šá ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x x x] LÚ.⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x x] ⸢x⸣ taš-pu?-[ra x x] / [x x x] ⸢x⸣-bu-⸢tu⸣-[ni x x x] / [x x x x] ⸢TIN⸣.TIR.[KI x x x] / [x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x]
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P239422.
Attribution
Image: Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses — from Mesopotamia (Assyrian royal centres — Aššur, Nineveh, Kalḫu, Dur-Šarrukin) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P239422). 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/P239422/.
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