Position in chronology
SAA 21 110. Bel-iqbi and the Gambuleans Appeal to the King (ABL 0771)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 21(1) To the king, our lord: your servants, Bel-iqbi and the Gambulians. May Ninurta and Gula forever ordain good health, happiness and physical well-being to the king, our lord! (5) We were dead dogs, but the king, our lord, revived us and placed the herb of life in our nostrils. (8) When the king removed the town Adarihiti in the land of Zamê, they elevated us from among the inhabitants and spoke to us [like thi]s: “You are the king’s ser[vants; build] a fort [and] get your fill from its ground.” But [nobody] gave us [...], and they [ut]tered [...]. As we [......] (Break) (r 2') [“...] We…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL BE.LUM-ni ARAD-MEŠ-⸢ka⸣ / md+EN—iq-bi ù LÚ.KUR.gam-bu-la-a.[a] / dMAŠ u dgu-la šu-lum ṭu-ub ŠÀ-bi / ṭu-ub UZU šá LUGAL EN-ni a-na da-ri-iš / liq-bu-ú UR.KU-MEŠ mi-tu-tu a-ni-ni / LUGAL EN ub-tal-liṭ-an-na-ši šam-mu ba-la-ṭu / a-na na-ḫi-ri-ni il-ta-kan / URU.a-da-ri-ḫi-ti ina KUR.za-⸢a⸣-me / LUGAL ki-i i-bu-ku ina ŠÀ-bi a*-[ši-bu]-tu / ul-te-li-an-na-ši ù [ki-i an-ni]-⸢i*⸣ /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P237248.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Assurbanipal, 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/P237248/..
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/P237248/.
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