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SAA 21 055. Elam's Ungratefulness (ABL 1260)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) The king's word to Ambap[pi] and the Rašias old and young: I am well; you can be glad. (5) From the beginning I have rendered favours to Elam, but they have not returned my favours. I protected their refugees from kings to noblemen, gave them bread and water and sent them (back) to their country, but they held back the messengers whom I had sent to greet them,neglected returning my servant who had sinned against me, gave the writing-board of my gods to the hands of [that] servant who had sinned against me, protected h[is ....], and placed him in heaven. (r 3) Now, [when I w]rote to…
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/P237691/
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Transliteration
a-mat LUGAL a-na mam-ba-ap-[pi] / ù LÚ.KUR.ra-⸢šá⸣-a.a LÚ.AB.BA-MEŠ / ù ṣéḫ-⸢ru⸣-ti DI-mu a.a-ši / ŠÀ-ba-ku-nu lu-u* DÙG.GA-ku-nu-ši / TA re-še MUN a-na KUR.NIM.MA.KI / ki-i i-pu-šu ù šu-nu / MUN-a.a ul ú-tir-ú-ni / LÚ.ma-aq-tu-te-šu-nu ul-tú / ŠÀ LUGAL-MEŠ ad-di NUN-MEŠ / aḫ-te-ṣi-in NINDA-MEŠ u A-MEŠ / at-ta-din u a-na KUR-šu-nu / al-ta-par-šu-nu-ti (erasure) / ù šu-nu LÚ.A—KIN-MEŠ-ia / ša a-na…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P237691.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Ashurbanipal, Part I: Letters from Assyria, Babylonia, and Vassal States (State Archives of Assyria, 21), 2018. Adapted by Jamie Novotny and lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2018, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P237691/..
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/P237691/.
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