SAA 21 116. Elam and Assyria Will be Yours! (ABL 0961)

~660 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P238091

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 21

High confidence

(1) [A tablet of the elders of Elam to] Assurbanipa[l, king of Assyria, ou]r [lord]. Good health t[o you]! (4) [The in]habitants of this part of the country have not been secure unti[l now], and the Pers[ians who] have kept making raids in Hidalu and i]n Yahdik, have [plun]dered their sheep. (8) Let Marduk-šarru-uṣur [come] and speak to you; let him quickly [sen]d Tammaritu and Kudurru with troops, and let them bring Tammaritu [to] Hidalu and [Kudu]rru to Yahdik. (r 2) [If] you do not quickly send them, the Persians will not be put in order. Send them quickly, and Elam and Assyria will be…

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

Transliteration

[IM LÚ.AB.BA-MEŠ šá KUR.NIM.MA.KI] / [a-na m]daš-šur—DÙ—DUMU.[UŠ LUGAL KUR—aš-šur] / [EN]-⸢ni⸣ lu-ú šu-lum a-[na ka-a-šá] / [UN]-MEŠ KUR šá a-kan-na a-di ⸢UGU⸣ [en-na] / ⸢ul⸣ it-qu-nu ù LÚ.par-⸢šu⸣-[maš] / [šá] ina URU.ḫi-da-lu / [ù i]-⸢na⸣ URU.ia-aḫ-di-ik / [it-te]-né-eb-bu-ú U₈.UDU-ḪI.A-šú-nu / [i-ḫab]-ba-tu mdAMAR.UTU—LUGAL—ŠEŠ / [lil-li]-ka-ma liq-bak*-ka / [mta]-am-ma-ri-ti mNÍG.GUB /…

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P238091.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P238091). 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/P238091/.

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