Position in chronology
SAA 21 122. Nabû-bel-šumati Seized and Sent to Assyria (646-IV-26) (ABL 0879)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) A tablet of Ummanaldasu, king of Elam, to Assurbanipal, king of Assyria: good health to my brother. (3) From the beginning the Martenians have sinned against you. They brought Nabû-bel-šumati across the river, initiating the fights between [Assyria] and Elam. Then you wrote: "Send Nabû-bel-šumati here," and I seized Nabû-bel-šumati and sent him to you. The Marteanians, who had brought Nabû-bel-šumati to Elam in the first place,[rebell]ed against me. Certain people of mine li[ving] on the waterline got wind of it, and they went and slew them in Lahiru. (13) I shall now send people who live…
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/P393823/
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Transliteration
IM mum-man-al-da-si LUGAL KUR.NIM.MA.KI / a-na mAN.ŠÁR—DÙ—A LUGAL KUR—AN.ŠÁR.KI lu-u DI-mu / a-na ŠEŠ-ia TAv SAG LÚ.mar-te-na-a.a / iḫ-ti-iṭ-ṭu-ú-nik-ka mdPA—EN—MU-MEŠ / a-na a-ḫu-la na-aṣ-ṣu-u-ni bir-ti [KUR—AN.ŠÁR].⸢KI⸣ / bir-ti KUR.NIM.MA.KI us-sa-an-ḫi-iṣ-[ṣu 0] / id—da-a-te at-ta tas-sap-ra ma-a mdPA—EN—MU-MEŠ / še-bi-la aṣ-ṣa-bat mdPA—EN—MU-MEŠ us-se-bil-ka / LÚ.mar-te-na-a.a ša TAv SAG…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P393823.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P393823). 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/P393823/.
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