Position in chronology
SAA 03 044. Aššur’s Response to Assurbanipal’s Report on the Šamaš-šumu-ukin War (CT 35 13ff)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 3(1) By my great support, with which I gave [you] confid[ence, you defeat the ......] who vie with you [for kingship ......]. (3) Because of these evil deeds [which Šamaš-šumu-ukin] committed against you, I pulled out the foundations of his royal throne, over[threw] his reign and [comma]nded the destruction of the entire land of Akkad. (5) To perfect the shrines of the great gods, to renew [...] the offerings, to venerate my divinity (and) a good reign of [...] I decreed as your fate. (7) As for Šamaš-šumu-ukin, who did not keep my treaty but sinned against the charity of Assurbanipal, my…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 3 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
ina tukul-ti-ia GAL-ti šá ú-tak-⸢kil⸣-[u-ka x x x x x x x x] / ša it-ti-ka iš-šá-an-na-⸢nu⸣ [a-na LUGAL-ti x x x x x x] / šu-ut ep-še-e-te an-na-a-te lim-né-e*-te [ša mdGIŠ.NU₁₁—MU]—⸢GI⸣.NA e-pu-šú UGU-ka / iš-di GIŠ.GU.ZA LUGAL-ti-šú ⸢as-suḫ⸣ BALA-šú ⸢áš⸣-[kip aq]-⸢bi⸣ sa-paḫ KUR—URI.KI DÙ-šá / šuk-lul eš-re-e-ti DINGIR-MEŠ GAL*-MEŠ ud-⸢du⸣-[uš x x x] na-qé-e UDU.SISKUR-MEŠ / pa-laḫ DINGIR-ti-ia…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P336149.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336149). 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/P336149/.
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