Position in chronology
SAA 16 127. Ikkilu of Arwad Steals the King’s Boats (ABL 0992)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 16(1) [To the king] of the lands, my lord: [your] servant Itti-Šamaš-balaṭu. [Good h]ealth to the lord of the kings, my lord! May [Aššur, Sîn], Šamaš, Bel, Nabû, Nergal, [Ištar o]f Nineveh, Ištar of the Kidmuri temple (and) [Ištar] of Arbela give long days, everlasting [y]ears, happiness, physical well-being (and) joy to the king, my lord. (10) From where the sun rises to where it sets, he (= Šamaš) has brought (all lands) to submission before the feet of the king, my lord. (13) The king, my lord, knows the nature of the land where the king, my lord, placed me. Ikkilû does not let the boats…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 16 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL] KUR.KUR EN-ia / ARAD-[ka] mKI—dUTU—TI.LA / [lu-u] ⸢šul⸣-mu a-na EN LUGAL-MEŠ EN-ia / [aš-šur d30] dUTU dEN dPA dU.GUR / [d15] ⸢ša⸣ NINA.KI d15 É—kid-mur-ra / [d15] ša arba-ìl.KI UD-mu GÍD.DA-MEŠ / ⸢MU⸣.AN.NA-MEŠ da-ra-a-te / ṭu-ub ŠÀ-bi ṭu-ub UZU ḫu-du-ú ŠÀ-bi / a-na LUGAL EN-ia lid-di-nu / TAv bé-et dUTU i-nap-pa-ḫa-an-nu / a-du-ú i-rab-bu-ú-nu / ina sa-pal GÌR.2 ša LUGAL EN-ia…
Scholarly note
Political letter at the court of Esarhaddon, edited by Mikko Luukko & Greta Van Buylaere (SAA 16, 2002). ORACC text P334666.
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/P334666/..
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/P334666/.
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