Position in chronology
SAA 21 025. Draft of No. 23 (ABL 1244)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 21(Beginning destroyed) (1) As to what you said, ["May the king not abandon U]r, and may the Gurasimmu not get [lost to the king]! What else can be done? Let me do it!" — did I not send send the governor of Mazamua and the prefects, did they not keep watch with you, did they not weaken and did they not die for your defence? When I saw that they were weakening and dying, I sent orders to release them, (but) did I not appoint with you the governors of Lahiru and Arrapha? (r 1) And now, even befo[re you wrote me], I sent the treasurer Aššur-gimilli-terra with an army. Do whatever is opportune to…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[ina] ⸢UGU*⸣ šá taq-bu-u-[ni ma MAN la ú-ram-ma] / ⸢ŠEŠ⸣.UNUG u gúr-sim-mu la [ŠU.2 MAN] / la ÍL-MEŠ a-ke-e aḫ—ḫur / ep-pu-šú ana-ku DÙ la áš-pu-ru / NAM KUR.za-mu-u LÚ.GAR-ME KI-ku-nu / la iṣ-ṣu-ru la e-ni-šú la ÚŠ-MEŠ / ina UGU EN.NUN-ku-nu ki IGI.LAL*-ni / e-ni-šú-ni ÚŠ-MEŠ-ni KIN DU₈-šú-nu / EN.NAM la-ḫi-ri u EN.[NAM] / ár-rap-ḫa KI-ku-nu / la ap-qid [0] / u ú-ma-a ki ud!-⸢din*⸣ [la KIN] /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P452645.
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/P452645/..
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/P452645/.
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