SAA 03 022. Paean to Assurbanipal after the Conquest of Elam

~680 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P336601

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 3

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(Beginning destroyed) (4) When he [......] (5) Elam to [......] (6) The king did not agree [to ......] (7) In [his] great wrath, the lord of kings [......] (8) until he had destroyed the camp [......] (9) and looted their gods, [......] the kin[g], (10) rav[aged] their graves, [......] (11) The king of Elam alone [......] (12) When Ummanaldasi [......] (13) He cried out and Nabû-[bel-šumati ......] (14) to the presence of the king [......] (15) With you [......] (16) Nabû-bel-šumati [......] (17) Come and [......] (18) He is a strong king [......] (19) I am [......] (20) He [......] (21) Like…

State Archives of Assyria, volume 3 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] / [x] a ṣab ⸢ṭu?⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x x x] / ⸢x⸣ ša ⸢id?⸣-[x x x x x x x x x x x x] / ki-i šu-u [x x x x x x x x x x x x] / KUR.NIM.MA.KI a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x] / ul i-man-gur ⸢LUGAL?⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x] / EN LUGAL-MEŠ ina šu-ḫu-uṭ ⸢ŠÀ-bi⸣-[šú x x x x x] / a-di ma-dak-tú iḫ-pu-ú ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] / DINGIR-MEŠ-šú-nu iḫ-bu-tú ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x x…

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P336601.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336601). source
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P336601/.

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