Position in chronology
SAA 21 114. Let Me Come and Do Obeisance to the King (CT 54 071)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 21(Beginning destroyed) (1') [...] ... [......] (2') When [the ki]ng [......] (3') [...] the land of Raši [...] (4') my [...] to R[aši ...] (5') I sent Aššur-ušallim ... [int]o the presence of the king, but my words did not arrive in the king’s presence; [...] his information was [not] heard. (9') [Wh]en the king, our lord, [s]at on the throne, [I] sent Nabû-rim-ilani the bodyguard to the king, my lord, saying: “Let me see the [disposi]tion [of the ki]ng, and let me come and serve the king with this whole country.” (16') [The king], our [lo]rd, sent by the hand of Nabû-rim-ilani: “Fear not,…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x] ⸢x x x⸣+[x x x x x x x] / [x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ ki-⸢i⸣ [x x x x x x] / ⸢x⸣ KUR.ra-a-⸢ši⸣ [x x x x x] / [x]-ia a-na KUR.⸢ra-a⸣-[ši x x] / [x m]aš-šur*—ú-šal-lim AD ⸢x x⸣-nu / [a]-na pa-an LUGAL al-tap-ra dib-bi-ia / [ina] ⸢IGI*⸣ LUGAL ul tak-šu-⸢dam-ma*⸣ / [la] ši-ma-ta man-di-is*-su / [a]-⸢ki?⸣ LUGAL EN-a-ni ⸢ina⸣ [GIŠ].⸢GU.ZA⸣ / ⸢ú?⸣-ši-ib md+AG—⸢AM—DINGIR-MEŠ⸣ / [LÚ].qur*-bu-tu a-na pa-an ⸢LUGAL…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P238360.
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/P238360/..
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/P238360/.
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