Position in chronology
SAA 21 107. Duplicate of No. 106 (CT 54 189)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 21(Beginning destroyed) (2') [... no one t]arried [in Elam, they have returned to Babylon. They tell me t]he news of Marduk-šarru-uṣur: [“We have seen (it)], he [we]nt for dinner to [Tammaritu] [i]n our presence.” [I have sent other] men, too, telling them to go and [speak] with him, [come back and] give me a [si]gn from him. (8') [As soon as I heard (this) report], I wrote to the king, my lord: “Šamaš-šumu]-ukin [......] (Break) (r 2') [If it pleases the king, my [l]ord, [let the king, m]y lord, [order that] they [should be] shown a house in Nineveh and [live there, and let me send] my…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[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*⸣-em šá mdAMAR.UTU—LUGAL—PAB / [i-qab-bu-ni um-ma ni-ta-mar] ⸢ina⸣ pa-ni-ni a-na NINDA-ḪI.A / [a-na mtam-mar-i-te i]-⸢te⸣-ru-ub ù 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-ni / [ṭè-e-mu ki-i áš-mu-ú] a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P238663.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P238663). 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/P238663/.
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