Position in chronology
SAA 03 045. Aššur’s Response to Assurbanipal’s Report on the Elamite Wars (CT 35 26)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] gods [......] (2) [......] to make you attain [your] wish [......] (3) [...... I] endowed you with mig[ht ......] (4) [......] You have no [equal] where there is battle [......] (5) [Princes and governors kne]el before you and praise the valour of your lordship. (6) [The magnates] of Elam tremble and shake b[efore you]. [By] your [... and] the good fate which I decreed for you, [you will sm]ite [her], and her governors will sway to and fro like reeds in the tempest. (9) I will remind you of [......] and show it to you. [(While) the ......] seized their…
Source: Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P336150/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x] ⸢DINGIR⸣-MEŠ mu-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x] ⸢šum⸣-ṣe-e ma-la ŠÀ-⸢bi⸣-[ka x x x x x] / [x x x x x áš]-ru-uk-ka da-⸢na⸣-[nu x x x x x x] / [x x x šá-ni-na] a-šar MÈ la ta-raš-[ši x x x x x] / [NUN-MEŠ GÌR.NÍTA-MEŠ kam]-⸢su⸣ ma-ḫar-ka i-dal-la-lu qur-di EN-ti-⸢ka⸣ [o] / [LÚ.GAL-MEŠ ša KUR].NIM.MA.KI ig-da-na-al-lu-tú i-ru-ub-bu ⸢ma⸣-[ḫar-ka] / [x x x x x]-⸢ka⸣ ši-mat…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P336150.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336150). 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/P336150/.
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