SAA 21 039. Sîn-šarra-uṣur and Nabû-šar-ahhešu (CT 53 372)

~660 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313786

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 21

High confidence

(1) [The king's word to the Kissikians: I am well]; you [can be glad]. (6) [......] (7) [...... Sîn-šarra]-uṣur (8) [...... Nabû-šar]-ahhešu (9) [...... sen]d me (10) [......] Sîn-šarra-uṣur (11) your [......] (12) [......] cross over to me. (r 1) [As to the ... i]n the hands of (r 2) [... Na]bû-šar-ahhešu (r 3) [which were not m]ade (and (r 4) [about which you w]rote, (r 5) [for] what reason (r 6) [...] st[il]l (r 7) [...] ... (rest uninscribed)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[a-bat LUGAL] / [a-na URU.ki-sik-a.a?] / (completely destroyed) / (completely destroyed) / [ŠÀ-ku-nu lu DÙG.GA]-ku-nu / [x x x x x x x]-e / [x x x x md30—MAN?]—PAB / [x x x x mdPA—MAN]—PAB-MEŠ-šú / [x x x x mak-kul]-la-ni / [x x x x md]30—MAN—PAB / [x x x x]-⸢ku⸣-nu / [x x x x] eb-ra-a-ni / [x x] ⸢ša⸣ ŠU.2 / [x x md]⸢PA⸣—MAN—PAB-MEŠ-šú / [ša la? in]-né-ep-šu-nu / [ša taš]-pur-a-ni / [a-na] mì-nim-ma / [x x]-⸢ḫur⸣ aḫ—⸢ḫur⸣ / [x x x]-i-šu-⸢nu*⸣

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P313786.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313786). 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/P313786/.

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