SAA 21 128. Fragment Concerning Šamaš-šumu-ukin and Nabû-bel-šumati (CT 54 138)

~660 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P238492

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 21

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1') [......]...[......] (4') [...] his [...] and boy ser[vant ...] (5') [...] the king [......] (6') [...] of Nabû-b[el-šumati ...] (7') [...] that who [......] (8') [Šam]aš-šumu-ukin [......] (9') [...] ... [......] (Break) (r 3) You will overcome their [......] (r 4) [...] Nabû-bel-šumati [......] (r 5) [... of] my brother, who [...] Assyria (r 6) [...] ... and [......] (r 7) [...] x + 6 tale[nts ......] (r 8) [...] Nabû-bel-šumati [......] (r 9) [......] whom we [......] (r 10) [......] se[nt ...] (Rest destroyed)

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

Transliteration

[x x x x x x x] a? ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / [x x x x x]-⸢tu?⸣ šu? [x x x x x] / [x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ tu ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / [x x x x x]-šú u LÚ.⸢TUR⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x] ⸢x⸣ LUGAL [x x x x x] / [x x x] ⸢x⸣ šá md+AG—⸢EN⸣—[MU-MEŠ x x] / [x] ⸢x⸣ šu-ú šá [x x x x x x] / [md]⸢GIŠ⸣.NU₁₁—MU—GI.NA il-⸢li⸣-[x x x x] / [x] ⸢x du u⸣ am ⸢x kab⸣ [x x x x x x] / ⸢x x⸣ [x] ⸢x⸣ uš u ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x] / [x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x…

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P238492.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P238492). 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/P238492/.

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