Position in chronology
SAA 21 017. Elders of Nippur Visiting the King (ABL 0287)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 21(1) [The king's word] to the Nipp[urians]: I am well; you can be glad. (4) Concerning Hannana, Rimut, and Aya-ila'i, the Ru'ueans about whom you wrote, it is good that you captured them. Now do not neglect to keep them under guard. (10) And as to what you wrote, "When we, 15 elders, came to visit the king, [half of us] entered [into] the king's [presence but half of us were rej]ected — (16) [it is in the first place the fault of Iss]ar-bani and the fault of the šandabakku and of your prefect, and in the second place of the overseer of the palace, who did not let you into my presence. (r 7) I…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[a-mat LUGAL] / a-na LÚ.EN.⸢LÍL⸣.[KI-MEŠ-a.a] / DI-mu a.a-ši / ŠÀ-ba-ku-nu lu-ú DÙG.GA-ku-nu / ina UGU mḫa-an-na-na mri-mut / ù ma.a—DINGIR-a-ʾi / LÚ.ru-ú-a.a šá taš-pur-a-ni / ba-ni šá taṣ-ba-ta-šú-nu-ti / en-na a-na EN.NUN-šú-nu / la te-eg-ga-a-aʾ / ù ina UGU šá taš-pur-a-ni / um-ma 15 a-ni-nu / LÚ.AB.BA-MEŠ a-na šul-me / ša ⸢LUGAL*⸣ ki-i ni-il-li-ka / [x x a-na pa-an] LUGAL i-ter-bu /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P237779.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Ashurbanipal, Part I: Letters from Assyria, Babylonia, and Vassal States (State Archives of Assyria, 21), 2018. Adapted by Jamie Novotny and lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2018, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P237779/..
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 2018. The Correspondence of Assurbanipal, Part I: Letters from Assyria, Central Babylonia, and Vassal States. SAA 21. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa21/P237779/.
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