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SAA 03 044. Aššur’s Response to Assurbanipal’s Report on the Šamaš-šumu-ukin War (CT 35 13ff)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 3(1) By my great support, with which I gave [you] confid[ence, you defeat the ......] who vie with you [for kingship ......]. (3) Because of these evil deeds [which Šamaš-šumu-ukin] committed against you, I pulled out the foundations of his royal throne, over[threw] his reign and [comma]nded the destruction of the entire land of Akkad. (5) To perfect the shrines of the great gods, to renew [...] the offerings, to venerate my divinity (and) a good reign of [...] I decreed as your fate. (7) As for Šamaš-šumu-ukin, who did not keep my treaty but sinned against the charity of Assurbanipal, my…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 3 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
ina tukul-ti-ia GAL-ti šá ú-tak-⸢kil⸣-[u-ka x x x x x x x x] / ša it-ti-ka iš-šá-an-na-⸢nu⸣ [a-na LUGAL-ti x x x x x x] / šu-ut ep-še-e-te an-na-a-te lim-né-e*-te [ša mdGIŠ.NU₁₁—MU]—⸢GI⸣.NA e-pu-šú UGU-ka / iš-di GIŠ.GU.ZA LUGAL-ti-šú ⸢as-suḫ⸣ BALA-šú ⸢áš⸣-[kip aq]-⸢bi⸣ sa-paḫ KUR—URI.KI DÙ-šá / šuk-lul eš-re-e-ti DINGIR-MEŠ GAL*-MEŠ ud-⸢du⸣-[uš x x x] na-qé-e UDU.SISKUR-MEŠ / pa-laḫ DINGIR-ti-ia…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P336149.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Alasdair Livingstone, Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea (State Archives of Assyria, 3), 1989. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2019-20, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P336149/..
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P336149/.
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