SAA 21 086. Shadowing a Haruspex (CT 53 282)

~660 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313697

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 21

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Beginning destroyed (r 1) Concerning Bel-b[a]ni the haruspex about whom you wrote, I have n[ow] sent him in the hands of Ah[i-]atâ, (who) is coming into my presence. As soon as he is on his way to me, take to the road behind him so that he does not hear of it, and write me, if he (= Bel-ibani) is with him! (rest uninscribed)

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

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Transliteration

ina UGU mEN—⸢ba?-ni⸣ / LÚv.ḪAL šá taš-pur-an-ni / ⸢an-nu-ri ina⸣ ŠU?.2 ⸢LÚv?⸣.TUR / ⸢mPAB—a⸣-ta-a al-ta-par / ⸢DU⸣-ka ina IGI-ía GIM / [šu]-u ina IGI-ía il-la-ka at-⸢ta⸣ / ⸢ina⸣ ku-tal-li-šú ṣa-bat [0] / šu-u lu la i-šam-[me] / šum-ma is-si-šú-ú-[ma] / il-la-ka šup-[ra]

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P313697.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313697). 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/P313697/.

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