Position in chronology
SAA 16 163. Ritual on the River Bank (ABL 0583)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 16(Beginning destroyed) (2) If the king [so orders], we will perfor[m] it t[oo] on the river bank. (5) Let it be brought and thrown on the river Zab. (7) May the king, my lord, decide and write, and give orders to whoever man is to bring and throw it. (r 6) Now the tablet [...] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 16 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x] / šum-ma LUGAL [i-qab-bi] / ina UGU ÍD-⸢ma⸣ / né-e-pu-⸢uš⸣ / lu-bi-lu ina UGU ÍD.za-⸢ab-bi⸣ ši-i / li-ik-ru-ru / LUGAL be-lí / lip-ru-us / liš-pu-ra / ù LÚ man-nu / ša ub-bal-u-ni / i-kar-ra-ru-ru-ni / ṭè-e-mu liš-kun / ú-ma-a ṭup-pu [x] / [x] ʾa ši [x x]
Scholarly note
Political letter at the court of Esarhaddon, edited by Mikko Luukko & Greta Van Buylaere (SAA 16, 2002). ORACC text P334402.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334402). 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/P334402/.
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