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SAA 09 008. Words Concerning the Elamites (ABL 1280)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 9(1) Words [concerning the Elam]ites. (2) [God] says as follows: (3) "I have go[ne and I ha]ve come." (4) He s[ai]d (this) five, six times, and then: (5) "I have come from the [m]ace. I have pulled out the snake which was inside it, I have cut it in pieces, and I have broken the mace." (8) And (he said): "I will destroy Elam; its army shall be levelled to the ground. In this manner I will finish Elam."
State Archives of Assyria, volume 9 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
dib-bi [ša KUR.NIM.MA].⸢KI*⸣-a.a / ki-i an-[ni-i DINGIR] ⸢i⸣-qab-bi / ma-a at-⸢ta*⸣-[lak at]-tal-ka / 05-šú 06-šú iq-[ṭi]-⸢bi⸣ id—da-a-te / ma-a TAv UGU GIŠ.[nàr]-an-ti at-tal-ka / ma-a MUŠ ša ina ŠÀ-bi-šá as-sa-ad-da / ab-ta-taq ù ma-a GIŠ.nàr-an-tu / aḫ-te-pi ù ma-a KUR.NIM.MA.KI / a-ḫap-pi :. o* Á.2-MEŠ-šú TAv kaq-qir / i-sap-pan ma-a ki-i an-ni-i / KUR.NIM.MA.KI a*-gam-mar
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian prophetic oracle, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 9, 1997). ORACC text P334828.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Simo Parpola, Assyrian Prophecies (State Archives of Assyria, 9), 1997. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P334828/..
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 1997. Assyrian Prophecies. SAA 9. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa09/P334828/.
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