Position in chronology
SAA 17 005. I Swear That You Will Keep your Dynastic House (CT 54 045)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 17(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) May I not d[ie ...! Until] I se[e] another [...], do not 'seize' your heart but come and [see] the face of Bel! (r 5) I swear by Bel and Nabû that nobod[y] has taken aw[ay] your dynastic house, that you indeed will see your dynastic house grow old in extreme old age. And we know for sure, that your son and your son's son will rule your [..., and th]at th[ey] indeed will [...] (Break) (e. 1) [...] they should go [...].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 17 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Spotted an error? Suggest a correction — confirmed corrections feed the engine's knowledge base.
Transliteration
[x x x]+⸢x⸣ la a-⸢ma?⸣-[ti] / [x x]+⸢x⸣ šá-ni-tú am-ma-[ru o] / ⸢ŠÀ⸣-ba-ka la taḫ-ḫa-⸢az⸣ [o] / al-⸢kám⸣-ma pa-ni šá dEN* [a-mur?] / d.EN u dPA ki-i mam-⸢ma⸣ [o] / É—⸢AD⸣-ka i-te-eṭ*-[ru] / u ki-i a-di-i ina ši-bu-⸢tu⸣ / u lit-tu-⸢tu⸣ É—AD-ka / tu-lab-ba-ru u ni-di-⸢i⸣ [ki-i] / DUMU-ka DUMU—DUMU-ka [o] / ⸢x x⸣-ka i-rad-du-⸢ú⸣ [o] / [u ki]-⸢i⸣ a-di-⸢i? i-x⸣+[x x x] / [x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ lil-li-⸢ku⸣
Scholarly note
Babylonian-language letter to Sargon II or Sennacherib, edited by Manfried Dietrich (SAA 17, 2003). ORACC text P238128.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P238128). source
Translation excerpted from Dietrich, M. 2003. The Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib. SAA 17. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa17/P238128/.
Related tablets
Related sources
An early example of administrative writing from Uruk. Its fragmentary numerical entries and commodity signs document record-keeping during the formative period of writing.
A surviving administrative record of named people and livestock in the Ur III period. Together with other archives, such accounts reveal the work of managing animals, deliveries and institutional responsibility.
Part of the earliest known body of international diplomatic correspondence. Akkadian, written in cuneiform on clay, was the lingua franca of Late Bronze Age statecraft — used between Egypt, the Hittites, Mitanni, Babylon, Assyria, and the Levantine vassals.