Position in chronology
SAA 03 031. Defeat of Teumman and the Annexation of Elam (IAsb pl.45)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 3(Beginning destroyed) (3) I did not draw together [......] of my heart, [......] (4) [The princes] who had fled before me [...... and] concerning [whom] Teumman [had sent] ...[......], [who had s]at [...] and grasped my feet, I [......]. (7) He g[athered] the [... force]s of Elam; and [although] I had not done to him [evil], he [...... and planned for] ... and the conquest of my land. (10) [......] a banquet before [......] ...: "Do not go!" (11) But he [...] the forces of [Elam] and marched on, saying: "I will not [sleep until] I have come and din[ed] in the centre of Nineveh!" (14) When I…
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] / [x]+⸢x⸣-ia ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x] ŠÀ*-bi*-ía* ⸢la⸣ ak-ṣur aṣ-[x x x x x] / [x x x] ⸢x⸣ šá* ana ⸢IGI-ía⸣ iḫ-liq-u-nin-ni [x x x x x] / [x x x]+⸢x x x x⸣-MEŠ mte-um-man ⸢ina* UGU* x x⸣ [x x x x] / [x x]-šib*-u*-ni* ⸢GÌR.2?-ia?⸣ iṣ*-bat-u-ni as-⸢sa⸣-[x x x x x] / [Á.KAL]-MEŠ ⸢x-MEŠ šá*⸣ [x x]+⸢x⸣-tu šá KUR.NIM.KI ⸢up⸣-[taḫ-ḫir] /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P336175.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336175). 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/P336175/.
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