Position in chronology
SAA 16 129. Raids by Arabs (CT 53 289)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 16(Beginning destroyed) (1) my lord [......] (2) [May they ...] the enemy of the king, [my] lord, (and) [establish] a good name to the k[ing, my lord]. (4) The gods of the king, my lord, will finish off [... and deliver them] to the ki[ng, my lord]! (6) When king, my lord, [sent] a message [to me], (7) ... a crime in [......] (8) All the gods of the k[ing ......] (9) de[livered ...] to the king, my lord. (10) We have sent Umitê to [......]. (11) The moment th[at the gods of the king], my lord, established a good name to [..., ......] to me (14) there [......] (15) thi[s ......] (16) I wrote…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 16 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢EN-ía ta?-x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] / LÚ.KÚR ša LUGAL EN-[ía x x x x x x] / šu-mu dam-qa a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ía i-šak-ku-nu] / DINGIR-MEŠ ša LUGAL EN-ía ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / ú-gam-mu-ru a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ía id-du-nu] / ši-pir-ti É LUGAL be-lí [iš-pur-an-ni] / pa-zu-u ḫi-ṭu ina ŠÀ-⸢bi⸣ [x x x x x] / gab-bi DINGIR-MEŠ ša ⸢LUGAL?⸣ [x x x x x] / a-na LUGAL EN-ía it-[x x x x x x] / mú-mi-te-e a-na [x x x x x…
Scholarly note
Political letter at the court of Esarhaddon, edited by Mikko Luukko & Greta Van Buylaere (SAA 16, 2002). ORACC text P313704.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313704). 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/P313704/.
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