Position in chronology
SAA 13 139. Bel Reconciles with Mullissu (ABL 1249)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(1) [I] am the Lord. I have entered and made peace with Mullissu. (3) Assurbanipal, king of Assyria whom she raised, fear not! I am the Lord. (6) I have forgiven you (Mullissu). Assurbanipal is in a country which is loyal. Together with his country, I have forgiven you. (10) I departed safely and securely from your city. Mercy, compassion ... (Break) (r 3) I entrea[ted] and prayed to the Lord. I (then) dispatched Nabû-šarru-uṣur, a tracker of my contingent. (Space) (r 5) To the king, my lord: your servant, Aššur-hamatu'a. May Aššur and Ištar bless the king.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na-ku] EN e*-⸢tar*⸣-ba* / TAv d⸢NIN.LÍL⸣ a-si-⸢lim*⸣ / maš-šur—DÙ—A LUGAL ⸢KUR⸣—aš / ⸢ša*⸣ tú-ra-bi-i-⸢ni*⸣ / ⸢la*⸣ ta-pa-làḫ / [a-na]-ku* EN ar-te-an-ki / m*aš-šur—DÙ—A ina KUR ša GIN / šu-ú a-di KUR-šu / ar-te-an-ki / ina DI*-mu šal-lim-te / TAv URU-ki at-tú-ṣi / ⸢re*-e*-mu*⸣ gim-lu / [x x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ / ⸢a*-na*⸣ [o] EN at-⸢ta*⸣-[ḫar] / ú-sa-ri-ir-ri / mdPA—MAN—PAB LÚv.⸢UŠ*⸣—kib*-si / ša mu-gi-ia a-sa-par / a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka maš-šur—ḫa-mat-ia / aš-šur d15 a-na LUGAL / lik-ru-ub-bu
Scholarly note
Letter from a temple priest or ritual official to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Steven Cole & Peter Machinist (SAA 13, 1998). ORACC text P334817.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Steven W Cole, Peter Machinist, Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Priests to Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal (State Archives of Assyria, 13), 1998. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko and Silvie Zamazalová, 2011-13, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P334817/..
Translation excerpted from Cole, S.W. & Machinist, P. 1998. Letters from Priests to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal. SAA 13. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa13/P334817/.
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