Position in chronology
SAA 21 081. I’ll Prepare a Nice Gift for You (CT 54 566)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 21(1) The king’s word to Iddin-ahhe: I am well, you can be glad. (5) I know that from the be[ginning] to the end n[ot] a single one of all these cri[mes] is yours. (9) And these names [...] (10) muc[h ...] (rest (about 5 lines) broken away) (beginning (about 5 lines) broken away) (r 1') When [I converse with] all those [who stay] in my presence, and ask and qu[estion them], they tell only ni[ce] things [about] you [...]. (r 6') Now then I’m writing t[o you]: (r 7') As soon as they have take[n] the city, you shall fall upon the criminals with weapons. Get up, come into my presence, and I will prepare a [...] gift for you. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-mat LUGAL / a-na mSUM-na—ŠEŠ-MEŠ / DI-mu ia-a-ši / ŠÀ-ba-ka lu-ú DÙG.GA-ka / ana-ku i-di ki-i ul-tu ⸢re*⸣-[eš] / a-di qí-it ina ŠÀ ḫi*-⸢ṭa*⸣-[a-ti] / an-na-a-ti gab-bu [01-et] / at-⸢tu⸣-ú-ka ia*-[aʾ-nu] / u a-ga-at ⸢MU-MEŠ⸣ [x x x] / a-ki-i—ma*-⸢aʾ*⸣-[de-e x x] / ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x x] / ki-⸢i⸣ [x x x x x x x x] / mal* ina* IGI*-⸢ia*⸣ [ú-šu-uz-zu] / u a-šá-ʾa-al ⸢ú⸣-[ṣa-ṣu-šú-nu] / dib-bi-ka…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P237683.
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/P237683/..
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/P237683/.
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