SAA 03 051. Your Slanderous Lips

~680 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P336608

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 3

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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...] before the king [......] (2) [...]... one who plots [ ......] (3) He approached me, [......] the fates. (4) You used to wonder about [......] (5) The slander of your lips [......] (6) All the dark things that you did [......] (r 1) You pocketed a shekel, [......] your comrade (r 2) You used to sit opposite [......] (r 3) What did you achieve, (you) terrible, evil [......]? (r 4) He tears out [...], does not [......] flesh (r 5) [...]... does not [......] (Rest destroyed)

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

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Transliteration

[x x] ⸢x⸣ IGI ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣-ri-da ka-⸢ṣir⸣ [x x x x x] / ⸢iq⸣-ṭar-ba-ni ši-ma-⸢ti⸣ [x x x x x] / ta-at-ta-tal-lak ina ⸢UGU⸣ [x x x x x] / a-kal kar-ṣe-e NUNDUN-MEŠ-⸢ka⸣ [x x x x x] / ik-la-ti am—mar te-pu-⸢šá⸣-[ni x x x x] / 01 GÍN tùm-ta-aṭ-ṭi e-ber-ka [x x x x x] / ⸢ta⸣-at-ta-taš-šab a-na mi-iḫ-ri-[it x x x x] / [mi]-⸢i⸣-nu tak-šir ek-ṣu lem-nu [x x x x x] / [x x] i-mal-laḫ UZU ⸢ul⸣ [x x x x x] / [x x x]-⸢li-ik⸣ ul i-[x x x x x]

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P336608.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336608). 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/P336608/.

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