Position in chronology
SAA 21 058. Why Haven't You Done What You Promised? (ABL 1380)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 21(1) The king's [word] to Menanu: I am [well]; you can be glad. (3) This is what you sent through Ubaru, after you had killed Šimbur: "I have killed Šimbur, to whom you rendered a favour by imposing a treaty upon him but who sinned against the treaty, and I have released Ubaru and am herewith sending him to you. I shall go and we shall make battle with Ummanigaš, to whom you rendered a great favour but who has likewise sinned against your treaty by siding with your adversary and crossing over to your territory, and we shall fight with him and revenge you." (14) And in the messages which I sent…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[a-mat] LUGAL a-na mme-na-na / [DI-mu] ia-ši ŠÀ-ba-ka lu-u DÙG.GA-ka / a-ga-ʾi-i šu-ú šá i-na ŠU.2 mú-bar / taš-pur ul-tu mšim-bur ta-duk-ku / um-ma mšim-bur šá MUN te-pu-šá-áš-šum-ma / u a-de-e tu-še-eṣ-bi-tu-uš ù šu-u / ana a-de-e-ka iḫ-ṭu-ú a-duk ù mú-bar / ki-i ap-ṭur al-tap-rak-ka al-lak-ma / it-ti mum-ma-ni-i-gaš šá at-ta MUN / GAL-ti te-pu-šá-áš-šum-ma a*-na* a-de-ka-ma / iḫ-ṭu-ú it-ti…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P237540.
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/P237540/..
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/P237540/.
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