Position in chronology
SAA 16 076. Fragment Mentioning a Nephew of Hanbi
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 16(Beginning destroyed) (2) [...] they are [...] (3) They did [... month after] month. (r 1) [He m]oved the [...]s up to the town, but the townsmen [mo]lested him, and the king got angry. (r 4) [Inur]ta-ahu-uṣur, the chief tailor, and [PN], the nephew of Hanbî (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 16 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-te šu-nu / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ITI e-tap-šu / [x x x]+⸢x⸣-te ina ŠÀ-bi URU / [ú-se]-li-ia-a u LÚv.URU-MEŠ-⸢ni⸣ / [iḫ]-ta-sa-ʾu-šu LUGAL ir-tu-ʾa-⸢ba⸣ / [md]⸢MAŠ⸣—PAB—PAB LÚv.GAL—KA.KÉŠ / [mx x x]+⸢x⸣ DUMU—ŠEŠ-šú ša mḫa-an-bi-i / [x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x]+⸢x⸣-nu
Scholarly note
Political letter at the court of Esarhaddon, edited by Mikko Luukko & Greta Van Buylaere (SAA 16, 2002). ORACC text P336779.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336779). source
Translation excerpted from Luukko, M. & Van Buylaere, G. 2002. The Political Correspondence of Esarhaddon. SAA 16. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa16/P336779/.
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