Position in chronology
SAA 21 023. Longer Version of No. 22 (ABL 0543)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [The king's] wor[d to Nabû-ušabši]: (2) Conc[erning ... about which you wrote to me], "[Why has the king] remo[ved ... ?]" (4) I w[ro]te to you [a]s from [the beginning]: "You and the g[overnors], stay and work (together), and bring food to me." I w[ro]te to you [a]s from [the beginning]: ''You and the g[overnors], stay and work (together), and bring food to me." Did you not hear th[us]? . Now w[hy] did you say, "What is my fault?" It is not your fault! It is the fault of your colleagues, the governors whom I keep sending but who do not come, stay and work with you! (16) [As to what you…
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/P393780/
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Transliteration
a-⸢bat⸣ [LUGAL a-na mdPA—GÁL-ši] / ina [UGU x x x x ša taš-pur-an-ni] / ⸢ma*⸣-[a x x x x x x x LUGAL] / ul-[li ki-i] šá* ⸢TAv*⸣ [re-e-še] / as-⸢sa⸣-[par]-ak-⸢ka⸣ / mu-uk at*-tú-nu u LÚ.[NAM-MEŠ] / i-ti-is-sa dul-lu ep-[šá] / NINDA-MEŠ iṣ-ṣa-a-ni ak—⸢an⸣-[ni-i] / la taš-me-a ú-ma-a a-na [mì-i-ni] / taq-bi ma-a mì-i-nu ḫi-ṭa-a.a / la-a ḫi-ṭa-a-ka šú-u ḫi-iṭ-ṭu / šá ki-na-ta-te-ka LÚ.NAM-MEŠ / šá…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P393780.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P393780). 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/P393780/.
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