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SAA 21 064. Congratulations on the Battle of Bit-Bunakki (CT 53 908)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [The king's word to] Tammari[tu]: I [am well]; you [can be] glad. (3) I have heard [what Aššur] and my gods have done;) they met with a [figh]t [where they] went, and inflicted a massacre in Bit-Bunakka. (8) Also, those cities which they destroyed, (10) [......] (11) [......] placed (12) [......] I rejoiced (13) [......] the gods (14) [......] (15) my [......] (r 1) [...]. I also heard [that the god]s have assisted you to defeat the Dinšarreans in my name, and I rejoiced. (r 6) God (himself) [with] his bow fought this whole [fi]ght that took place [in Pa]rsua, [beca]use my name is upon you. (r 11) Count [thi]s among my many favours. (rest uninscribed)
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/P314317/
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Transliteration
[a-bat LUGAL a-na] ⸢m⸣tam-mar—⸢ÍD⸣ / [DI-mu ia-a]-ši ŠÀ-ba-ka / [lu-u DÙG].⸢GA⸣-ka as-se-me / [šá aš-šur] u DINGIR-MEŠ-ia e-pu-šú-u-ni / [miḫ]-⸢ṣu⸣ iḫ-ḫur-a-ni / [bé-et?] il-lik-ú-ni / [de]-ek-tu ina URU.É—bu-nak-ka / [i]-du-ku-u-ni u URU-MEŠ / ⸢am⸣-mu-ú-te šá iḫ-pu-u-ni / [x] lu e-[x x] ⸢x⸣-ni-šu-nu / ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x] ⸢iš-kun⸣-u-ni / [x x x x x] ⸢aḫ⸣-tú-ud-du / [x x x x x x] DINGIR-MEŠ-ni / [x x x…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P314317.
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/P314317/..
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/P314317/.
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