SAA 21 050. Fear not: I Shall not Deport You (ABL 0541)

~660 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P393751

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 21

High confidence

Beginning destroyed (2') [Concerning the … o]f the R[u'u] tribe [about which you wr]ote, "We want to grasp your feet; we are afraid of getting deported by Assyria and of being exposed to Elam" — (7) Now, in accordance with what you said, come before Bel-iqiša, and let him put you in a territory that you like. Stay there as my subjects and guard the fortress of R[u'u] with Bel-iqiša. (r 2) I swear by my gods that I shall not deport you and not expose you to Elam. I am writing to you: fear not [bec]au[se] of this [matter].. Rest destroyed

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

Transliteration

[ina UGU x x] ⸢ša* LÚv.ru⸣ [ša] / [taš]-pur-a-ni ma-a GÌR.2-⸢ka*⸣ / ni-iṣ-bat ma-a pal-ḫa-a-ni / TAv IGI šá-ga-lu-ti ša KUR—aš-šur / TAv IGI tu-ru-te ša ku-tal-li / a-na KUR.NIM.MA.KI / ú-ma-a ki-i ša taq-bi-a-ni / ina IGI mEN—BA-šá al-ka-a-ni / kaq-qu-ru É ta-ra-ʾa*-ma-ni / lu-šá-aṣ-bit-ku-nu / ina ŠÀ-bi ši-i-ba / ARAD-MEŠ-ni-ia at-tu-nu / URU.ḪAL.ṢU ša LÚv.⸢ru*⸣ / TAv mEN—BA-šá / uṣ-ra ina ŠÀ…

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P393751.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P393751). 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/P393751/.

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