SAA 03 021. Assurbanipal’s Wars in Elam (ABL 1462)

~680 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P334919

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 3

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) [To] the right ...[......] (2) who created you [......] (3) [and who ...]ed the kingship [......] (4) You glorify [......] (5) Those who entreat [......] (6) In Egašankalamma [......] (7) Her eyes on [......] (8) Your deeds [......] (9) choicest oil [......] (10) A deceitful woman, who [......] (11) loves yo[u ......] (12) vie[s ......] (13) Nabû-bel-šumati [......] (14) who with treachery [......] (15) your [...] ... [......] (Break) (r 3) Nabû-[bel-šumati ......] (r 4) with his servant [......] (r 5) speaks [......] (r 6) You will keep me alive [......] (r 7) the web [......] (r 8) Who is ...[......] (r 9) Their nonexistence [......] (r 10) Assurbanipal [......] (r 11) His enemies [......] (Rest destroyed)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 3 — scholar edition (ORACC).

Transliteration

[ina] im-ni ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / šá tab-nu-ka [x x x x x x] / LUGAL-tú tu-še-[x x x x x x] / tu-šar-ri-ḫi [x x x x x x] / ma-ḫi-ru-te ⸢d*⸣[x x x x x x] / ina É.GAŠAN.KALAM.[MA x x x x x] / IGI.2-MEŠ-šá UGU [x x x x x x] / ep-še-te-ka ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / ú-lu Ì ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / e-le-nit ⸢šá?⸣ [x x x x x x] / i-ra-an-⸢ka⸣ [x x x x x x] / i-šá-an-na-⸢an?⸣ [x x x x x] / mdPA—EN—MU-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x x x]…

Scholarly note

Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P334919.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334919). source
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P334919/.

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