BAM 6, 537

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P238994

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P238995 · ~675 BCE

SAA 04 025. Esarhaddon Sending his Messenger to NN (AGS 026) [military and political]

“(1) [Šamaš, great lord], giv[e me a fi]rm [positive answer to what I am asking you]! (2) [Esarhaddon, king of …”

P238993 · ~675 BCE

SAA 04 225. Fragment of a Query (AGS 148) [unclassifiable]

“(Beginning destroyed) (1) [... Is it decreed and confirmed in a favorable ca]se, [by the command of your great…”

P238996 · ~675 BCE

SAA 04 103. Fragment Similar to No. 101 (AGS 079) [military and political]

“(Beginning destroyed) (2) [... Will he who can see, see it? Will he who can hear], hear it? (3) [Disregard the…”

P238992 · ~675 BCE

SAA 04 268. Will the Army of Assurbanipal Defeat the Manneans? (AGS 151) [military and political]

“(1) [Šamaš, great lord], give me [a firm positive answer to what I am asking you]! (2) [Will the troops of the…”

Transliteration

_en2#_ ul# [...]
_an#?-ta na-an-gi#_ x x [...]
[x] x _en-bi si-sa2_ : x [...]
[x x] BI EN LA x x [...]
[x x] x x x [...]
[x x bu-']-sza2#-nu# [...]
_[gin7] ur#-bar-ra_ is,-s,a#-bat# x [...]
[ina] im#-bu-ub ha-sze-e it#-[ta-di ...]
s,i#-i bu-'-sza2-nu ul [...]
u _ku3-su13_ la i-ni-qu# [...]
at-ta e ta-as-sah-ra# [...]
_en2_ ul iu-u2-tu-un _en2_ [...]
_en2#_ da#-mu# u# gu#-la# [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — BAM 6, 537. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P238994) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P238994..

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