Position in chronology
SAA 16 017. Report on Kunaya and Kudurru (ABL 1257)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 16(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Assurbanipal. Good health to the king, my lord! May Aššur, Bel and Nabû bless the king, my lord. (6) Concerning Kunaya (and) Kudurru about whom the king, my lord, said: "Send word that Sasî be interrogated, he knows about them" — he has writt[en] a[s] follows: (Break) (r 2) "[PN], a Chaldean, has appealed to the king on account of them. (r 5) "They say that an [Ar]amean woman is putting a cloak on her neck and is staying with the king's servants, saying 'I and Abdi-milki are making peace.' (r 12) "This is ... They should read the letter with the repo[rt]."
State Archives of Assyria, volume 16 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / ARAD-ka maš-šur—DÙ—A / lu DI a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / aš-šur dEN dPA a-na MAN EN-ia / lik-ru-bu / ina UGU mku*-na*-a.a / mku-dúr-ru šá MAN EN iq-bu-u-ni / ma-a šu*-pur liš*-u-lu* / a-na msa-si-i / ma-a šu-tú [ṭè]-en*-šú-[nu] / ú-da ⸢ki⸣-[i] an-ni-i / is-sap*-[ra ma-a] / [x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x]-te / ⸢ma⸣-[a mx x x x]-a / LÚv*.kàl*-⸢da⸣-a.a / a-mat LUGAL ina UGU-šú-nu /…
Scholarly note
Political letter at the court of Esarhaddon, edited by Mikko Luukko & Greta Van Buylaere (SAA 16, 2002). ORACC text P334819.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Mikko Luukko and Greta Van Buylaere, The Political Correspondence of Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 16), 2002. 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/P334819/..
Translation excerpted from Luukko, M. & Van Buylaere, G. 2002. The Political Correspondence of Esarhaddon. SAA 16. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa16/P334819/.
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