SAA 21 024. Duplicate of No. 23 (ABL 1108)

~660 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P452585

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Beginning destroyed (2') [“why] has] the king re[moved ...]?” (3') I w[ro]te to you [a]s from [the beginning]: "You and the governors, [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! (13') As to what you said, "May the king not abandon Ur, and may the Gurasimmu [not get lo]st to the king! What else [can be done]? Let me do it!" — [did I not send send the governor of Mazamua and the…

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/P452585/

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Transliteration

[x x šá taš-pur]-an-ni [ma-a x x] / [x x x x x] LUGAL ⸢ul⸣-[li ki-i] / ša TAv re-e-še as-sa-par-[ak-ka] / muk at-tu-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 ana mi-i-ni / taq-bi ma-a mì-i-nu ḫi-ṭa-a.a / la-a ḫi-ṭa-a-ka šu-ú ḫi-iṭ-ṭu / ša LÚ.ki-na-at-ta-te-e-ka / LÚ.NAM-⸢MEŠ*⸣ [šu]-ú* šá KIN-áš-šá-nu-u-ni / la-a il-⸢lak*⸣-[ú*]-nin-ni…

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P452585.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P452585). 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/P452585/.

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