Position in chronology
SAA 15 069. Fight for the Control of Šingibutu; Magnates in Media (ABL 0174)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(1) [To] the king, my lord: [your servant] Marduk-šarru-uṣur. [Good health t]o the king, my lord! The land of the king my lord i[s well]. (5) [Concerning the n]ews of the district, they told me [previously: "Ašpa-ba]ri [has t]old Kibabiše and Dasukku: 'The king gave Ellipi to me and I shall enjoy it. He gave Šingibutu to Marduk-šarru-uṣur. It is your towns that have been snatched away. If you (want to) fight, do so, or leave it; I am not involved in it.'" He spoke thus before the people of the country. (19) Now Kibabiše and Dasukku are constantly running about opposite [me] with a hundred…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na] LUGAL be-lí-a / [ARAD-ka m]dAMAR.UTU—MAN—PAB / [lu DI-mu a]-na LUGAL be-lí-a / [DI-mu a]-⸢na⸣ KUR ša LUGAL be-lí-a / [ina UGU ṭè]-e-mu ša KUR.na-gi-u / [pa-ni-tú] iq-ṭí-bu-u-ni ma-a / [máš-pa—ba]-ri a-na mki-ba-bi-še / [ma-a] a-na mda-su-uk-ku / [iq]-ṭí-bi ma-a LUGAL KUR.el-li-pa / ia-a-ši it-ta-an-na a-kal / ma-a KUR.šin-gi-bu-tú a-na / mdAMAR.UTU—LUGAL—PAB it-ti-din / ma-a ik-ka-nu-ú…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P334119.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334119). source
Translation excerpted from Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P334119/.
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