Position in chronology
SAA 21 100. Advising the Kings of Assyria and Elam (CT 54 569)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1') [......] servants (2') [......] when/if (3') [......] does not know [whether] they are [in] Assyria, and [the ...] of the king of Babylon [......] does not know whether they are [in Ela]m. (8') [...... t]ogether (9') [......] that with us (10') [...... you d]id (11') [......] (b.e. 16') [..... to G]N (r 1) [... I sen]t them (r 2) [... g]oes [...], oxen (r 3) [...] ... good sense (r 4) [... are sa]ying, ”[...] has advised [the king of] Assyria,” [and ... are sa]ying, ”he has advised [the king of Ela]m.” (r 8) [...] their [del]iberations (r 9) [... Now i]f you (r 10) [... this] message (r 11) [......] dog (r 12) [...... amon]g you (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/P237690/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x] LÚ.ARAD-MEŠ / [x x x x] ⸢x⸣ ki-i / [x x x x x] ul i-di-ma / [ki-i i-na KUR]—aš-šur.KI šú-nu / [x x x x] ⸢x⸣ šá LUGAL TIN.TIR.KI / [x x x x x] ⸢ki⸣-i / [i-na KUR.NIM].⸢MA⸣.KI šú-nu ul i-di / [x x x x x] ⸢it⸣-ti a-ḫa-meš / [x x x x x x]-si šá it-ti-ni / [x x x x te]-⸢pu⸣-šá-aʾ / [x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣-tu / [x x x x x x x x]-tu / [x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x x]-⸢nu?⸣ / [x x x x x x]…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P237690.
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/P237690/..
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/P237690/.
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