SAA 21 085. Fragment Similar to No. 84

~660 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P395621

Translation · reference

High confidence

Beginning destroyed (2') I wr[ote......] (3') and as [......] (4') in his hands [......] (5') the bow in his hand [......] (6') who [...] the bow in his hand [...] (7') and [...] their protection [...] (8') For the second time [......] (9') I let them liv[e ......] (10') I placed them [......] (11') no[t] even the heaven [......] (rest broken away) (broken away)

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/P395621/

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Transliteration

⸢kar-me⸣ [x x x x] / al-ta-⸢kan⸣ [x x x] / u ki-i a-⸢ga⸣-[a x x] / ina ŠU.2-šú la ⸢i?⸣-[x x x] / GIŠ.BAN ina ŠU.⸢2⸣ bu ⸢x⸣+[x x] / ša GIŠ.BAN ina ŠU.2-šú ⸢x⸣+[x x] / ù ki-din-us-su-[nu x x] / šá-ni-ia-aʾ-nu [x x x] / ub-tal-li-su-[nu-ti x x] / al-ta-kan-šú-nu-[ti x x] / šá-⸢mu⸣-um-ma ⸢ul⸣ [x x x]

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P395621.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P395621). 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/P395621/.

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