Position in chronology
SAA 21 133. Shortage of Water (CT 54 173)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (3') [...] water [...] (4') [The king], our [lo]rd, should ask [...] (5') [At the time of] your grandfather [...] (6') [...] threw before them [...] (7') their [...] were not found [...] (8') [...] all their water was finish[ed] (9') All [water from the] Euphrates that [...] (10') [...] to negle[ct ...] (11') [...]... of [...] (b.e. 12') [...] I [...] (Rest destroyed)
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/P238641/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] / [x x] ⸢x x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x x] ⸢A*⸣-MEŠ ú-[x x x] / [LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣-a-ni liš-ʾa-⸢al⸣ [x x] / [x x x] AD—AD-ka ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x x] pa-ni-šú-nu id-du-[ú x] / [x x x]-šú-nu ul am-ru mi-[x] / [x x x]-ú A-MEŠ-šú-nu gab-bi qa-⸢tu⸣-[ú] / [A-MEŠ ša ÍD].pu-rat-ti ma-la [x x] / [x x x x]-MEŠ a-na e-⸢ge*⸣-[e x x] / [x x x x]-du-ú šá ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x x x] a-na-ku [x x x x]
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P238641.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P238641). 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/P238641/.
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