Position in chronology
SAA 16 028. Dressing Down the Wife of the Crown Prince (ABL 0308)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 16(1) Word of the king's daughter to Libbali-šarrat. (3) Why don't you write your tablet and do your homework? (For) if you don't, they will say: "Is this the sister of Šeru'a-eṭirat, the eldest daughter of the Succession Palace of Aššur-etel-ilani-mukinni, the great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria?" (r 5) Yet you are (only) a daughter-in-law — the lady of the house of Assurbanipal, the great crown prince designate of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria!
State Archives of Assyria, volume 16 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-bat DUMU.MÍ—LUGAL a-na / MÍ.URU.ŠÀ—URU—šar-rat / a-ta-a ṭup-pi-ki la ta-šaṭ-ṭi-ri / IM.GÍD-ki la ta-qab-bi-i / ú-la-a i-qab-bi-ú / ma-a an-ni-tu-u NIN-sa / ša MÍ.dEDIN—e-ṭè-rat / DUMU.MÍ GAL-tú ša É—UŠ-MEŠ-te / ša maš-šur—NIR.GÁL—DINGIR-MEŠ—GIN-in-ni / MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR—aš-šur / ù at-ti ma-rat kal-lat GAŠAN—É ša maš-šur—DÙ—A / DUMU—MAN GAL ša É—UŠ-MEŠ-te / ša maš-šur—PAB—AŠ MAN KUR—aš
Scholarly note
Political letter at the court of Esarhaddon, edited by Mikko Luukko & Greta Van Buylaere (SAA 16, 2002). ORACC text P334196.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334196). source
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/P334196/.
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