Position in chronology
SAA 21 045. Why Did You Invade the Gurasimmu without my Permission? (ABL 0291)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 21(1) The king's word to Bel-ibni: I am well; you can be glad. (4) Concerning that territory of the Gurasimmu on which you notified to me, did I not give you orders like this: "When you have done your job as I told you and delivered it, what should your compensation be??" (11) Now why did you invade it without my explicit permission? (If) you, who belong to my entourage and know my fear have acted like this, then how will one who does not know it act? (19) Now, if you wish this matter, mobilize all your archers, and inasmuch as this heart of yours wishes you to regain my favour, observe what Sîn-deni-epuš does, do whatever is opportune to do in his regard, and in due course you will see yourself pardoned. (rest (9 lines) uninscribed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-mat LUGAL / a-na md+EN—DÙ / DI-mu a.a-ši ŠÀ-ba-ka lu DÙG.GA-ka / ina UGU mi-ṣir ul-lu-ú / šá LÚ*.gu-ra-sim-mu šá tu-šá-id-an-ni / ul lib-bu-u a-ga-i / ṭè-e-mu áš-kun-ka / um-ma áš-šá lib-bu-ú / šá aq-bak-ka te-tep-šu-ma / ta-at-tan-na mi-nu-ú / lu-ú UR₅-MEŠ-ka en-na / mi-nam-ma šá la pi-ia a-na ŠÀ-bi / tu-ri-id at-ta ša / LÚ.man-za-az—IGI-ia at-ta / ù pu-luḫ-ta-a ti-du-u / lib-bu-ú a-ga-a-ʾi /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P237904.
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/P237904/..
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/P237904/.
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