SAA 03 043. Fragment of the Same Text as No. 42

~680 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P336607

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 3

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) That land ...[......] (2) The princes and governors [......] (3) Tax and tribute [......] (4) First fruits to Ehursagg[alkurkurra ......] (5) As to what you wrote me: "The gods ...[......] (6) "What your gods [...] not [......] (7) As for them [......] (8) Which god ...[......] (9) Which king [......] (Break) (r 1) ...[......] (r 2) The land of Ak[kad ......] (Rest destroyed)

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

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Transliteration

KUR šu-a-tu ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / NUN-MEŠ GÌR.NÍTA-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x x x] / GÚ.UN man-da-at-[tu x x x x x] / SAG-MEŠ ina É.ḪUR.SAG.⸢GAL⸣.[KUR.KUR.RA x x x] / ša taš-pur-an-ni ma-a DINGIR-MEŠ an ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] / ma-a ša DINGIR-MEŠ-ka la [x x x x x] / šá-a-šú-nu [x x x x x] / a.a-ú DINGIR šá it-⸢ti?⸣ [x x x x x] / a.a-ú LUGAL [šá x x x x] / e-[x x x x x] / KUR—⸢URI?⸣.[KI x x x x x]

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P336607.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336607). 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/P336607/.

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