Position in chronology
SAA 21 131. No Merchandise to the Ishmaelites! (CT 54 139)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (2') [May ...... the gods of] Assyria and the land of [Akk]ad grea[tly delight] your heart! (3') I swear by [DN (and) the gods of t]he king that no human beings have been sold [to ......]! Why does the legate [... say ...], “He is not reporting his work”? [I have writ]ten to him [... x] times. (6') The messenger of the lady Yati-abi, who [... (and) from] whom I learned [..., ......]. Right now, she has said [...]: (8') [“...... shall c]ome, and I will [...] my enemy [......!]” (9') Now for wh[at reason would] I [......]? (10') [......] I gave [the following order to NN]…
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/P238493/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x x DINGIR-MEŠ šá] KUR—daš-šur.KI ⸢ù KUR—URI*.KI⸣ ŠÀ-ka ma-⸢aʾ⸣-[diš x x x x] / [x x DINGIR-MEŠ šá] ⸢LUGAL⸣ lu-ú i-du-ú ki-i a-me-lu-tu ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x x x x x a-na ši-i]-me na-ad-nu-ma mi-nam-ma LÚ.qí-i-pi ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x x x x x x x um-ma] dul-la-šú ul i-šap-pa-ra a-⸢di⸣ [x x] / [x x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x x-ra⸣-áš-šú LÚ.A—KIN šá…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P238493.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P238493). 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/P238493/.
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