Position in chronology
SAA 21 134. Chief Eunuch Conquests Bit-Imbiya (CT 54 177)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 21(Beginning destroyed) (1') if to [......] (2') the taltallakku and [...] (3') saying, “Make it of gold!” [...] (4') Marduk-šarru-uṣur and the ch[ief eunuch] — these were present. (6') When the king, my lord, sent me with the chief eunuch, we conquered Bit-Imbiya, (and) I sent my mother, my brothers and the people of my house [into the presence] of the king, my lord. (11') [The coh]ort [commander] of the chief eunuch [and ...] ascended and (13') [......] the Son of Anu (14') [the god]s of the king, my lord (r 1) [......] ... (r 2) [... the crafts]man of the camp (r 3) who [...] Kuri'dû (r 4) of the campaign [...] (r 5) And if I should hear anything bad about the camp, I will tell it to the nobles. (r 7) As to Nabû-ipuš and Teiṣipidi , the eunuch [......] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
ki-i* ⸢a*-na* x⸣ [x x x x x] / tal-tal-lak-ku-ma u ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / um-ma šá KUG.GI e-pu-⸢uš⸣ [x x] / mdAMAR.UTU—LUGAL—ŠEŠ u LÚ.⸢GAL?⸣—[SAG?] / an-nu-tu ú-šu-uz-zu [0?] / it-ti LÚ.GAL—SAG LUGAL EN-a / ki-i iš-pu-ra-an-ni / URU.É—mim-bi-ía ni-iṣ-ṣa-bat / AMA-a ŠEŠ-MEŠ-e-a u UN-MEŠ É-ía / [a-na pa-an] LUGAL EN-ía al-tap-ra / [LÚ.GAL?—ki]-⸢ṣir⸣ LÚ.GAL—SAG / [x x x x] ⸢x⸣-ki e-te-⸢lu?⸣-uʾ-ma / [x x x…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P237459.
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/P237459/..
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/P237459/.
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