Position in chronology
SAA 21 021. This Cripple is Trying to Get Out of the City (CT 54 464)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 21(1) [The king's word] to [Illil-bani]: I am w[ell; y]ou can be glad. (3) Now then I am writing to you: this cripple is trying to ... get out fortified zone. Be cautious, keep watch over him, (and) appre[hend him] in your hands. Once he has disappeared, what will ... him and who will [...] with him? (10) Stand by and [...] (11) will catch the pursued one [...] (12) Let [the guard] be strong [...]. (13) Don´t be negligent; [during] this [mont]h you, the sh[eikhs] and the Urukians [who are w]ith you should not be separated from one another. (17) [He] has power [to do] the things that you hear…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-mat LUGAL] a-[na mdEN.LÍL—ba-ni?] / ⸢DI⸣-[mu] ⸢ia⸣-a-ši [ŠÀ-ba-ka] / ⸢lu⸣-ú ṭa-ab-ka ⸢en-na⸣ / a-du-ú al-tap-⸢rak⸣-ka LÚ.ḫum-⸢mur⸣ / a-ga-a bir?-⸢ta?-a-nu?⸣-tu uṣ-ṣu [0] / lu-u pít-qud-da-tu-nu ma-ṣar-ta-šú / uṣ-ra i-na ŠU.2-ku-⸢nu ṣab-ta-šú⸣ / šá ḫal-qu mi-nu-u ⸢uṣ?⸣-ṣi-šú-ma / ù man-nu it-ti-šú ⸢x x⸣-šú / i-ši-iz-za-a-ma [x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ / rad-pu i-kaš-šad [x x x x x] / lu-u dan-na-⸢at⸣ [x x…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P236974.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P236974). 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/P236974/.
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