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SAA 21 119. Let Me Finish All the Enemies of the King! (ABL 0943)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Tammaritu. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) I have heard the kind words of the king, my lord, and have recovered with the help of God and the king’s genie. Now let me by the same token finish all the enemies of the king, my lord! (9) [May] Marduk, [Beltiya], Nabû, Mullissu (and) [E]nlil announce you [good] tidings, (13) [...... v]ery (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/P452742/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ía / ARAD-ka mtam-mar-ÍD / lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía / dib-bi ṭa-bu-tú šá LUGAL EN-ía / as-se-me ina ŠÀ DINGIR u dALAD / ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL ab-ta-laṭ / ú-ma-a am—mar LÚ.KÚR-un-ni / LUGAL EN-ía ki-i an-ni-i / ⸢lu⸣-ga-mir dAMAR.UTU / [dGAŠAN?] dAG dNIN.LÍL / [d]⸢EN⸣.LÍL pa-as-su-ur-tú / [de-iq-tú lu]-pa-as-si-ir-u-ka / [x x x x x x x x a-dan]-niš
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P452742.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P452742). 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/P452742/.
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