Position in chronology
SAA 21 105. The King Has Consolidated our Privileged Status (CT 54 478)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1') [......] ... [...] (2') [the king, our lord, r]emembered us, and gave water [... to our ...], consolidated our privileged status, [and] established [our freedom from taxes]. (4') And since [we are] his servants [...], there has been [no other lord] for us [...] (6') [[In] the fourth ... of our lords [......] (Rest destroyed)
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/P237040/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x] tu [x x x x] / [x x x x x] ⸢ḫa⸣-sa-an-na-šú u A-MEŠ [x x x x x] / [x x x x x] ⸢i⸣-din ki-di-nu-ta-ni ik-ta-ṣar [x x x x] / [x x x x x] il-ta-kan u a-ki ARAD-MEŠ-šú [x x x x] / [x x x x x]-⸢ma⸣ [ul?] ib-ši-an-na-⸢šú?⸣ [x x x] / [x x x x] re-⸢bi-i?⸣ šá EN-MEŠ-ni [x x x x x]
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P237040.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P237040). 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/P237040/.
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