Position in chronology
SAA 21 034. If You Repent, You’ll Be Rewarded (CT 54 080)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 21(Obverse destroyed) (beginning broken away) (r 1') [...... As] they [say], “In [......],” did I [not] provide you [with ...? And re]garding what all the lands say, “Do the [k]ing’s work],” he who is devoted to [his lord, d]oes so. (r 6') Now then I’m writing to yo[u]: (7) [Behold], my [e]ars are open to appeals. [If you repent], and if for the curs[es that befell ...], you [n]ow afterwards do go[od deeds] and are recep[tive ... to the words of] this [mes]sage of mine, they [will give you] a nice reward in accordance with how [you do] this work. You [shall] be [d]one up, and thereby [you will see the ... and] the shares that I will give to your son and [your gr]andson(s). (blank space of one line)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x] / [i-qab-bu]-ú um-ma i-⸢na⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x] ⸢x⸣ ú-šá-aṣ-bit-⸢ka⸣ [x x x x] / [ù i-na] UGU šá KUR.KUR i-qab-bu-⸢ú⸣ [um-ma dul-lu] / [šá] ⸢LUGAL⸣ e-pu-uš šá pa-ni-šú a-⸢na⸣ [x x x] / [ip]-⸢pu⸣-uš en-na a-du-ú al-<tap>-rak-⸢ka⸣ / [a-mur] ⸢uz⸣-na-a a-na ⸢ma⸣-ḫa-ra pe-ta-a [ki-i x x] / [x x x]-ma ù ki-i a-na ar-ra-[ti šá x x] / [x x a]-⸢du⸣-ú ár-ka-niš te-ep-pu-šu…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P238413.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P238413). 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/P238413/.
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