Position in chronology
SAA 21 062. My Forces Will Be There in a Month (CT 54 448)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Obverse destroyed) (r 2) [No]w then my forces have co[me and] assembled, and [stand] before [...]. It will not (take) more than a month that they [will get] there. [W]hen they co[me] to your presence, [rem]ember to write to me [...] (r 7) (Erased line) (r 8) [When my for]ces came, they did [not] let you [...]; and all that [...] (r 10) [...] truth according to [...] (r 11) [...] Your words should not go up [...] (r 12) Do not let [the ...] be caught, [they have gu]arded [...], (and) do not [disband] your company [until] my [for]ces arrive. (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/P236876/
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Transliteration
[x x] ⸢x⸣ É ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] / [a]-⸢du⸣-ú LÚ.e-mu-qí-⸢ia it⸣-[tal-ku-ni] / ⸢ip⸣-paḫ-ru ù i-na pa-an [x x x šu-nu] / [la?] ITI ù UD-mu šá i-na ŠÀ-bi [i-kaš-šá-du] / [a]—⸢ki⸣-ma a-na pa-ni-ka il-⸢la⸣-[ku-ni x x] / [ḫu]-⸢us⸣-sa-am-ma šup-ra ina [x x x x] / (erased x x x x x x x x) / [ki-ma e]-⸢mu⸣-qí-ia it-tal-ku-ni [x x x x] / [la] ⸢i*⸣-di-nu-nik ù ma-la ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x] ⸢x⸣ kit-ta ki-i…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P236876.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P236876). 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/P236876/.
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