Position in chronology
SAA 21 081. I’ll Prepare a Nice Gift for You (CT 54 566)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 21(1) The king’s word to Iddin-ahhe: I am well, you can be glad. (5) I know that from the be[ginning] to the end n[ot] a single one of all these cri[mes] is yours. (9) And these names [...] (10) muc[h ...] (rest (about 5 lines) broken away) (beginning (about 5 lines) broken away) (r 1') When [I converse with] all those [who stay] in my presence, and ask and qu[estion them], they tell only ni[ce] things [about] you [...]. (r 6') Now then I’m writing t[o you]: (r 7') As soon as they have take[n] the city, you shall fall upon the criminals with weapons. Get up, come into my presence, and I will prepare a [...] gift for you. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-mat LUGAL / a-na mSUM-na—ŠEŠ-MEŠ / DI-mu ia-a-ši / ŠÀ-ba-ka lu-ú DÙG.GA-ka / ana-ku i-di ki-i ul-tu ⸢re*⸣-[eš] / a-di qí-it ina ŠÀ ḫi*-⸢ṭa*⸣-[a-ti] / an-na-a-ti gab-bu [01-et] / at-⸢tu⸣-ú-ka ia*-[aʾ-nu] / u a-ga-at ⸢MU-MEŠ⸣ [x x x] / a-ki-i—ma*-⸢aʾ*⸣-[de-e x x] / ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x x] / ki-⸢i⸣ [x x x x x x x x] / mal* ina* IGI*-⸢ia*⸣ [ú-šu-uz-zu] / u a-šá-ʾa-al ⸢ú⸣-[ṣa-ṣu-šú-nu] / dib-bi-ka…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P237683.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237683). 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/P237683/.
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