Position in chronology
SAA 21 046. Mušezib-Marduk Rushed to his Mission (ABL 0399)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 21(1) The king's word to Bel-ibni: I am well; you can be glad. (3) Concerning Mušezib-Marduk, about whom you wrote, the very day he entered into my presence, I sent him to the road. (r 2) He did not spend a night in Nineveh.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-mat LUGAL / a-na md+EN—DÙ / DI-mu a.a-ši / ŠÀ-ba-ka / lu-ú ṭa-ab-ka / ina UGU mmu-še-zib—dAMAR.UTU / ša* taš*-pu*-ra* / ma-al UD-mi-šú i-tir-ba / i-na pa-ni-ia / KASKAL.2 ina GÌR.2-šú / al-ta-kan / nu-bat-ti / ina NINA.KI* ul i-bit
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P236874.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P236874). 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/P236874/.
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