SAA 21 054. (no title) (ABL 0295)

~660 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P399496

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Beginning destroyed (2) [... in] darkness [...] (3) [... t]his is not [...] (4) [... a]bandoned and [...] (5) [...] th[is] talk [...] (6) [...] If I [...] (7) despicable deeds [...] (8) [acco]rding to the wish [of…] (rest broken away) (beginning broken away) (r 1') just as [......]. (r 2') Now enhance the vict[ory of …][...] in your (pl.) country, and let me see an answer to my letter! (rest uninscribed)

Source: 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/P399496/

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Transliteration

[x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x] / [x x x] e-kel-ti [x x x x x x] / [x x a]-⸢ga⸣-a la ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / [x x ú]-maš-šir-u-ma ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / [x] ⸢x⸣ DUG₄.DUG₄ an-[x x x x x] / [x x]-⸢ti⸣ ki-i ana-ku ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / ⸢ep⸣-še-et bi-iʾ-šá-[ti x x x x] / [ki]-i ⸢ŠÀ x x⸣ [x x x x x x x x] / ki-i šá ⸢ni⸣-[x x x x x] / en-na le-ʾu-[ut x x] / ina KUR-ku-nu bu-un-⸢na⸣-[a-ma] / gab-ri ši-pir-ti-ia ⸢lu⸣-[mur]

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P399496.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P399496). 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/P399496/.

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