Position in chronology
SAA 21 027. Write as Follows to Bel-usallim (650-ii-25) (ABL 0517)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 21(1) The king's word to Nabû-ušabši: I am well; you can be glad. (4) Concerning the words of Bel-ušallim about which you wrote, write to him as follows: (7) "As to the son of Ea-zera-qiša and the elders of Bit-Amukani about whom you wrote, what you did is good; you have done a thing that is good to the house of your lord." (13) "And regarding the matters of the Lady Humbustu, about which you wrote: 'I have written to the Palace about them' — the king does not render the verdict of men who go to the king until Bel-ušallim comes into the presence of the king, my lord, and gives him a counsel…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-mat LUGAL a-na md+AG—GÁL-ši / DI-mu ia-a-ši ŠÀ-ba-ka / lu-ú ṭa-ab-ka / i-na UGU dib-bi šá md+EN—GI / šá taš-pur a-ki-i a-ga-a / šup-ra-áš-šú um-ma / ina UGU DUMU mdÉ.A—NUMUN—BA-šá / u LÚ.AB.BA-MEŠ šá LÚ.É—ma-muk-a-ni / šá taš-pur um-ma ba-ni / šá te-pu-šú um-ma a-mat šá / ina UGU É—EN-ka ṭa-ba-tu* / ši-i te-tep-uš u um-ma / ina UGU dib-bi MÍ.ḫu-um-bu-us-te / šá taš-pu-ra um-ma ana-ku / a-na…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P237175.
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/P237175/..
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/P237175/.
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