Position in chronology
SAA 21 028. I'm Sending to You my Treaty Tablet (ABL 0539)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 21(1) [The king's] w[ord to Nabû-ušabši. I am] we[ll], you [can be glad]. (3) Fr[om the beginning until no]w, you have render[ed many] favour[s] to me, kept m[y watch] and not sinned against my Treaty and oath. You have fallen and died on account of all the messages and orders I have been sending to you. And truly by these recent things that you have done you have surpassed everything. (12) The fact that for the sake of my name you have isolated yourself, keeping on the side of the representative of Aššur and Marduk; that you have kept [my watch] and not made [common cause] with my enemy; [the…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-[mat LUGAL a-na md+AG—ú-šab-ši?] / DI-[mu ia-a-ši ŠÀ-ba-ka lu-u DÙG.GA]-ka / ⸢ul⸣-[tu re-še a-di a-kan]-⸢na⸣ / MUN-[ḪI.A ma-aʾ-da-ti] ina IGI-ía / tal-ta-⸢kan⸣ [ma-aṣ-ṣar-ti]-⸢ia⸣ ta-at-ta-ṣar / a-na MUN-ía u a-na ma-mì-ti-ía / ul taḫ-ṭi a-na UGU šip-re-ti-ía / ma-la al-tap-pa-ru-ka u a-na UGU / a-mat-ia ki-i tan-qu-tu me-ta-ta / ù kit-tú ur-ki-tu a-ga-at / [šá] te-pu-šú al-la gab-bi-ši-na /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P237759.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237759). 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/P237759/.
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