Position in chronology
SAA 16 171. Fragment Referring to Extispicies and a Treaty (CT 53 266)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 16(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] the king, [my] lo[rd, ...] (2) [... I sai]d to him, "[...] (3) [...] I said, "Soon [...] (4) [...] we will [...] with each other." (5) [PN ... t]o Nabû-ahhe-šallim, th[e ...], (6) [...], saying: "[...] a lamb [...] (7) [...] "I am a servant of the king; [if] (8) [it] is acceptable [to the king, let] Nabu-taklak, the haruspex [...]." (9) [...] they sl[aughtered] lambs [......] (10) [...] I raged at h[im], (11) [bou]nd [...], and [made] a treaty w[ith him] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 16 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x] LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ía x x x] / [x x x x aq-ṭi]-⸢ba⸣-šú nu-uk [x x x] / [x x x x x] ⸢nu⸣-uk ba-a-si [x x x] / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ṣi TAv a-ḫe-iš ni-[x x x] / [x x x a]-na mdPA—PAB-MEŠ—šal-lim ⸢LÚv⸣.[x x x] / [x x x]-li ma-a UDU.pu-ḫa-du ⸢ḫu?⸣-[x x x] / [x x x] ARAD ša LUGAL a-na-ku ma-a [šúm-ma ina pa-an] / [LUGAL ma]-ḫi-ir mdPA—tak-lak LÚv.ḪAL [x x x] / [x x] ⸢UDU⸣.pu-ḫa-da-ni i-tak-⸢su⸣ [x…
Scholarly note
Political letter at the court of Esarhaddon, edited by Mikko Luukko & Greta Van Buylaere (SAA 16, 2002). ORACC text P313681.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313681). 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/P313681/.
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