Position in chronology
SAA 03 026. A Petition to Assurbanipal (ABL 1455)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Say to ...], the unrivaled [...], the tr[ue] deputy of [...], [the lord of] the lands, to the burning torch [......, to the creation] of the hands of Marduk, to the battle-axe [......, to] (4) the sun, whose radiance is strong and whose light [......, whose ...] were created before heaven and earth were created, and [......], (7) to Assurbanipal, the king [of the four regions], (8) to the stronghold [......, the ...] (9) of his heart [......: thus (speaks) your ...]: (10) Lord of kings [......] (Break) (r 1) [...]... [......] (r 2) [The ...]s of the lords of the…
Source: Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P238357/
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Transliteration
[x x] KALAG? NU.SÁ.A LÚ.qi-pu gi? [x x x x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣ KUR.KUR.RA a-na GI.IZI.LÁ ⸢GÍBIL?⸣ [x x x x x x x] / [DÙ] ⸢ŠU⸣.2 šá dAMAR.UTU a-na qul-mi-i ba-⸢na⸣-[x x x x x x x] / [d]UTU šá zi-mi-i-šú dan-nu ù nu-[ur-šú x x x x x x] / [šá] a-di la AN-e u KI.TIM ib-ba-[nu-ú x x x x x x x x] / ⸢ib⸣-ba-nu-ú ù at-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] / a-na mAN.ŠÁR—DÙ—DUMU.UŠ LUGAL* [kib-ra-a-ti er-bet-ti] / a-na…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P238357.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P238357). 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/P238357/.
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