Position in chronology
SAA 21 144. The Case of La-adiru-ili and His Sons (ABL 1032)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 21(Beginning destroyed or too broken for translation) (5') 11 [......] (6') 300 [......] (7') I (lit., “my arm”) did not intru[de] into [......] (9') They took [......] (10') the lord of kings [...] silver [......] (11') much [...] in their hands [......] (12') They have been giving it out. Let me clar[ify] (the matter) to the king, (and) [let him pass] a verdict. (r 1) Since they stood in the company of La-adir[u-ili], La-adir[u-ili got afraid], saying: “Perhaps the fact that they took the silve[r ...] will be heard, and [our business] will be ruined.” (r 5) Having g[one] and oiled [PN], whom…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
⸢a*⸣-[x x x x x x x x x x x x] / im*-[x x x x x x x x x x x x] / ma?-[x x x x x x x x x x x x] / šá ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x] / 11* [x x x x x x x x x x x] / 03-me [x x x x x x x x] / a-ḫi ina ŠÀ [x x x x x x x] / ul i-ru-[bu x x x x x x] / it-ta-šú-ú [x x x x x x] / EN LUGAL-MEŠ KUG.UD ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / ina ŠU.2-šú-nu ma-a-⸢du⸣ [x x x x x] / i-nam-din-ú a-na LUGAL lu-⸢šá*⸣-[pi] / šip-ṭi…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P238714.
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/P238714/..
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/P238714/.
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