Position in chronology
SAA 21 013. Confiscating Scholarly Tablets in Borsippa (CT 22, pl. 01, 001a)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) The king’s word to Šadanu: I am well, you can be glad. (3) The day when you see my tablet, take into your hands Šumaya, son of Šuma-ukin, Bel-eṭir the brother of Aplaya son of Arkat-ili, and the scholars of Borsippa, whom you know, and dig up all the tablets that exist in their houses and all the tablets that are deposited in Ezida; (10) the tablets of the royal amulets for the rivers of the purifications of Nisan (I), the amulet for the rivers of Tishri (VII) of the Bīt salā’ mê ritual, the amulet for the rivers of the day’s verdict, the four amulets for the head of the king’s bed and…
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/Q009252/
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Transliteration
a-mat LUGAL a-na mšá-du-nu / šul-mu ia-a-ši ŠÀ-ba-ka lu-u ṭa-ab-ka / UD-mi ṭup-pi ta-mu-ru mšu-ma-a / DUMU-šú šá mMU—GI.NA md+EN—KAR-ir ŠEŠ-šú / mDUMU.UŠ-a DUMU-šú šá már-kát—DINGIR-MEŠ / ù LÚ.um-ma-nu šá BÁR.SIPA.KI / šá at-ta ti-du-ú ina ŠU.2-ka ṣa-bat-ma / DUB-MEŠ ma-la ina É-MEŠ-šú-nu i-ba-áš-šú-ú / ù DUB-MEŠ ma-la ina É.ZI.DA šak-nu / ḫi-pi-ir-ma DUB-MEŠ šá GÚ-MEŠ šá LUGAL / šá na-ra-a-ti šá…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text Q009252.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Ashurbanipal, Part I: Letters from Assyria, Babylonia, and Vassal States (State Archives of Assyria, 21), 2018. Adapted by Jamie Novotny and lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2018, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/Q009252/..
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/Q009252/.
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