Position in chronology
SAA 21 148. Sending Visitors Back to the King; Aramean Raid on Elam (ABL 1361)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 21(Beginning destroyed) (2') [...... t]o my hands (3') [......] kingship (4') [......] king (5') [...... rei]gn (6') [......] into my presence (7') [......] two (8') [......] (9') When [NN and ...-iddi]na came [int]o my presence, I gave them [brea]d and choice beer, prepared them for the journey and [s]ent them into the presence of the king. (r 6) [If] the king has caught anybody else [in] my hands, let me die! (r 8) [As to] the Aramean(s) who went for booty to [Ela]m, [they ...ed] two oxen [... f]rom me (and) a flock of sheep and goats (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x x a]-⸢na⸣ ŠU.2-ía / [x x x x x x x x] LUGAL-tú / [x x x x x x x x] LUGAL / [x x x x x x x] ⸢BALA⸣-e / [x x x x x x x x] a-na pa-ni-ía / [x x x x x x x x] 02-ta / [x x x x x x x x]-ti / [x x x x x x x x]—⸢SUM⸣-na / [a]-⸢na⸣ pa-ni-ía ki-i il-⸢li⸣-ku-nu / [NINDA-ḪI].A KAŠ.SAG at-ta-din / [ù] KASKAL.2 i-na GÌR.2-šú-nu / [ki-i] áš-ku-nu a-na pa-an LUGAL /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P237746.
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/P237746/..
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/P237746/.
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