Position in chronology
SAA 21 106. Marduk-šarru-uṣur visits Tammaritu and Other Matters (ABL 0960)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 21(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Of the ...s o]f Nab[û-...], no one tarried in E[l]am, they have returned to Babyl[on]. They tell me the news of Marduk-šarru-uṣur: “We have seen (it); [he] went for dinner to Tammaritu in our presence.” [I] have sent other men, too, telling them to go and speak with him, return, and give me a sign from him. (11) I sent (this) report to the king, my lord, as soon as I heard it; the king, my lord, should know (it). (13) Earlier I told the king, my lord, that Šamaš-šumu-ukin will become hostile. When they heard of it, [hoping] to kill me, they ordered me to [... yo]ur…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x]-a [x x] ⸢šá*⸣ md⸢PA⸣—[x x] / [x x x] ina ⸢KUR.NIM⸣.MA.KI 01+en / ul im-mir-ka a-na TIN.⸢TIR⸣.[KI] / it-te-eḫ-su-ni ṭè-e-⸢mu⸣ / šá mdAMAR.UTU—LUGAL—PAB i-qab-bu-ú-ni / ⸢um⸣-ma ni-ta-mar* ina pa-ni-ni / [a]-na NINDA-ḪI.A a-⸢na⸣ [m]tam-mar-i-te / [i]-⸢te⸣-ru-⸢ub⸣ [ù] LÚ.ERIM-MEŠ šá-nu-ti-ma / [al]-⸢ta*⸣-par um-ma al-ka-ma it-ti-šú / ⸢du⸣-ub-ba iḫ-sa-nim-ma i-da-as-su / qí-⸢ba⸣-a-ni ṭè-e-mu…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P393916.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P393916). 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/P393916/.
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