Position in chronology
SAA 09 004. Fragment of a Collection of Encouragement Oracles
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 9(Beginning destroyed) (2) [Esarhaddo]n, king of Assyria, [......] (3) I will [catch ... and wease]ls, (and) (4) I will [cast them before] your feet. (5) [As for yo]u, fe[ar] not! [......] (6) I will v[anquish] the later [......] (7) You shall ... yo[ur ......] (8) [...] I will p[ut ......] (9) [...] massive in [...] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 9 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x] / [maš-šur—PAB]—⸢AŠ⸣ MAN KUR—aš-šur [x x x] / [ka]-⸢kiš⸣-a-ti ⸢ú⸣-[ba?-ra?] / [ina IGI] GÌR.2-ka ⸢a⸣-[kar-ra-ar] / [at]-⸢ta?⸣ la ta-⸢pal⸣-[làḫ x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣ ur-ki-u-te a-⸢kaš?⸣-[šad x x x] / [x x]-⸢ka⸣ tap-ta-an-[x x x] / [x x]-⸢ti⸣ a-šá-[kan x x] / [x x x]+⸢x-ka-bar⸣ ina ⸢x⸣+[x x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian prophetic oracle, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 9, 1997). ORACC text P336677.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Simo Parpola, Assyrian Prophecies (State Archives of Assyria, 9), 1997. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, 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/P336677/..
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 1997. Assyrian Prophecies. SAA 9. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa09/P336677/.
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