Position in chronology
SAA 21 067. Show Me that You Have Repented! (CT 54 116)
Translation · reference
High confidenceBeginning destroyed (2) [... c]anebreak [...] (3) [...] Don´t you know that other than you, nobody knows your [...] and the relenting of your hearts? Who knows it? Don´t insult (me)! It is not there, and nobody has taught it to you. (8) Now let me tell you: I swear by Aššur and my gods [......] (rest (1-2 lines only) broken away) (beginning (2-3 lines) broken away) (r 1) [Y]our subordin[ates],, who came [and] grasped my feet, what [beca]me of them?? [I swear] by Aššur and my gods that on the day when [...] this message (r 6) [......] Elam 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/P238459/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x x] ⸢GIŠ⸣.GI-MEŠ ⸢x⸣ [x x x] / [x x x] ⸢at⸣-tu-nu la ti-da-a / [x x x]-⸢ku⸣-nu u pa-šar ŠÀ-bi-ku-nu / [mim]-⸢ma⸣ al-la-nu-uk-ku-nu / ⸢i⸣-du-ú man-⸢nu* i⸣-di ta-par-ra-a / ia-a-nu u mam-ma ul ú-kal-lim-gu-nu-ši / en-na-ma lu-uq-bak-ku-nu-ši / ina ŠÀ AN.ŠÁR DINGIR-MEŠ-e-a at-te-me / [ki]-⸢i*⸣ [x x x] ⸢x⸣ a-⸢na⸣ [x x] / [šá] šu-pa-⸢li-ku⸣-nu šá il-⸢li-ku⸣ / [u]…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P238459.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P238459). source
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/P238459/.
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