Position in chronology
SAA 17 016. Joining the Royal Entourage (ABL 0838)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 17(1) [Tab]let of Nabû-bel-šumate and [NN] to the king, their lord. Good health to the king, [our] lo[rd]! (3) The king, our lord, has done us a favour; good deeds that not (even) a father has done to his son [...]: you have made us enter yo[ur] paternal house. (5) And when Keni heard about [this favour] that you did to us, he [...] all the lands (and) [...]ed the king, our lord. (8) Now then, the men [...] who are with Ana-Nabû-taklak [...]. (10) He knows their news. The land [...] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 17 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[ṭup]-pi mdAG—EN—MU-MEŠ ⸢ù⸣ mx+[x x x x] / [a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL be-lí-šú-nu lu-ú šul-mu a-na LUGAL be-[lí-ni] / ⸢MUN⸣ šá AD a-na DUMU la i-pu-šu [x x x x x] / ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí-a-ni i-tep-šá-an-ni a-na É—AD-⸢ka⸣ [(x x)] / tu-ul-te-rib-an-na-ši ù mGIN-ni [MUN a-ga-a] / šá te-pu-šá-an-na-ši KUR.KUR gab-⸢bi⸣ [x x x] / ki-i iš-mu-ú LUGAL be-lí-a-ni it-ta-[x-x] / en-na a-du-ú ERIM-MEŠ [x x x x x x] / šá it-ti…
Scholarly note
Babylonian-language letter to Sargon II or Sennacherib, edited by Manfried Dietrich (SAA 17, 2003). ORACC text P239161.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P239161). 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/P239161/.
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