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SAA 21 104. Shipping Grain to Elam (ABL 1385)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) A tablet of Šamaš-šumu-ukin to the king, my brother: Good health to my brother! May Marduk, Zarpanitu, Nabû, Tašmetu and Nanaya bless my brother. (7) Concerning the ships of that emissary about which I wrote to my brother, saying, “I have ordered that they be released” — (10) since I had repeatedly written to my brother without getting an answer, I became afraid. (14) The king knows that Ummanigaš, that crown prince, is hot-headed. I thought, “Perhaps he will put something in the sacks holding this grain and cause poisoning.” (r 3) The king also knows that we — any of us — are not able 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/P422081/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL ŠEŠ-ia / IM mdGIŠ.NU₁₁—MU—GI.NA / lu-u DI-mu a-na ŠEŠ-ia / dAMAR.UTU dzar-pa-ni-tum dPA / dtaš-me-tú dna-na-a a-na / ŠEŠ-ia lik-ru-bu / ina UGU GIŠ.MÁ-MEŠ ša LÚ.ṣi-i-ri / am-mì-i ša áš-pur-an-ni / a-na ŠEŠ-ia mu-uk a-sap-ra / ú-ra-am-mu-u né-me-el / 01 02-šú a-na ŠEŠ-ia áš-pur-an-ni / gab-ri di-ib-bi la iš-pur-ni-ni / a-na-ku ap-ta-làḫ mum-man-ni-gaš / am-mì-i DUMU—MAN LUGAL ú-da /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P422081.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Assurbanipal, 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/P422081/..
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/P422081/.
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