Position in chronology
SAA 21 036. You are Making an Unworthy Name for Yourselves (CT 54 509)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 21(Obverse destroyed) (r 1) [...... the dele]gate [...] (r 2) [yo]ur [...] greatly in [...] (r 3) that [...] is not brought out, nor [...ed]. (r 4) How has he [destroyed] your lives! He hates all that you were re[joicing about] and exerted yourselves for. You are now making an unworthy name for y[ourselves]. Whatever h[appened]? You are nothing, nothing. (r 9) [Now t]hat [word] which melte[d down and ...ed], but (which) I know, [now] be placed on top of [your] na[me]! (r 11) Just swear to that word wh[ich] is said [in the treaty], go o[ff, and] you will see its benefit. Under [my] protec[tion, yo[u will] now [attain all] that you have been exerting yourselves for [...] *CT 54 509 (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x LÚ.qí?]-⸢i*⸣-pi* [x x] / [x x x-ku]-⸢nu*⸣ ma*-aʾ-diš* ina [x x] / [x] ⸢x⸣-MEŠ ul-li-te la šu-ṣa la ⸢x⸣+[x x] / [ak]-⸢ka⸣-ʾi-i šu-u ZI-MEŠ-ku-nu ⸢ú⸣-[ḫal-liq] / [i]-za-ʾe-e-ra kal šá ta-ri-[šá?] / ⸢ta⸣-ad-lip-a-ma en-na MU la MU ⸢ra⸣-[man-gu-nu?] / ⸢ta⸣-šak-ka-na mi-nam-ma in-[né-pi-iš] / ⸢at⸣-tu-nu ia-aʾ-nu ia-aʾ-⸢nu⸣ [en-na a-mat] / ⸢ul⸣-li-ti šá ta-aṣ-ṣu-⸢da⸣ [x x x] / [u] ana-ku…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P237273.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237273). 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/P237273/.
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