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SAA 21 056. Teumman Defeated at Bit-Imbî (CT 54 567)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1') [N]ow then ... they have split up Elam. The chief eunuch has seized Bit-Imbî, Sikdê the commander of archers, brother of Ummanaldasu, his sons have been killed, and their heads have been brought before me. (8') The wife of Teumman, king of Elam, and his sons have been taken to me, and 11,000 soldiers have been killed at Bit-Im[b]î. (12') When I sent Šamaš-da’’i[nan-ni ...] to Sam’una, the sheikhs of Sam’una, Lahiru, Dibirina, Dummuqu, Nugu’, Huwaya and Bab-duri, these sheikhs who had raised hands and whose hands I had grasped, [infli]cted a massacre in Šulaya and [plunde]red their booty. (r 12) Also, the cities [of ... have been burnt] with fire. (r 14) [Y]ou [......] (Rest destroyed)
Source: 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/P237688/
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Transliteration
[a]-⸢du-ú⸣ x x (x) x-⸢lu-ku⸣ / ⸢KUR⸣.NIM.MA.KI up-tar-ri-su / LÚ.GAL—SAG URU.É—mdim-bi-i / iṣ-ṣa-bat msik-de-e ⸢LÚ.GAL⸣—GIŠ.BAN / ŠEŠ-šú ša mum-man-al-da-si / ù DUMU-MEŠ-šú di-i-ku / SAG.DU-MEŠ-šú-nu a-na IGI-ia / na-šu-u-ni DAM mte-um-man / MAN KUR.NIM.KI u DUMU-MEŠ-šú it-ta-šú-ni / ù 11-lim ERIM-MEŠ i-na / URU.É—m⸢im⸣-[bi]-⸢i⸣ id-⸢du-ku?⸣ / mdUTU—KALAG-⸢in⸣-[an-ni x x x] / a-na…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P237688.
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/P237688/..
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/P237688/.
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