Position in chronology
SAA 21 161. (no title) (CT 54 543)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Good health t[o my brother]! (2) Come, and until [...] (3) bring that silver [...] (rest (about 20 lines) broken away) (beginning broken away) (r 2) saying, “[......] (r 3) he will send them to Kudurru and [NN ...]. (r 5) And letters [...] (r 6) you put down, and [...] (r.e. 1) Dutan[u ......]
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/P237420/
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Transliteration
lu-ú šul-mu a-⸢na⸣ [ŠEŠ?-ia] / al-kám-ma a-di É [x x x] / KUG.UD šu-ú i-šam-ma [x x x] / [x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] / ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] / ⸢um-ma x⸣+[x x x x x x] / a-na mNÍG.GUB ⸢a-na⸣ [x x x x] / i-šap-pa-raš-šú-nu-tú ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / ù šip-re-e-ti [x x x] / ta-nam-da ù ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / mdu-ta-⸢nu⸣ [x x x x x x]
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P237420.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P237420). 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/P237420/.
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