Position in chronology
SAA 03 046. Fragment of a Divine Letter (CT 35 30)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 3(1) [By the support] of my great divinity, with which [I gave you confidence], (2) [......] the kings, your fathers [......] (3) [...]... to conquer a land not obedient to me [......]. (4) [At the comm]and of my great divinity, which cannot be [changed ..., the rulers] of the [four] regions [......]. (6) On their own initiative [they ...... and ......] in Ehursaggalkurkurra in the presence of [my great godhead.] (8) I desired you, I picked you out for shep[herdship ......, and sent you with] mighty weapons, sharp arrows, and flaming [swords] to fell [my] enemies. (11) [...] your priesthood [......] (12) [......of] my [god]head [......] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 3 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[ina tukul-ti] DINGIR-ti-ia GAL-ti ša [ú-tak-kil-ú-ka] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ LUGAL-MEŠ AD-MEŠ-ka [x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣ ka-šad KUR la ma-gi-ri-ia [x x x x x x x x x x] / [ina pi]-i DINGIR-ti-ia GAL-ti ša la ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x] / [mal-ki] ša kib-ra-a-ti [erbe-tim x x x x x x x x] / ina ṭè-e-me ra-ma-ni-šú-nu [x x x x x x x x x x] / ina É.ḪUR.SAG.GAL.KUR.KUR.RA ina ma-⸢ḫar⸣ [DINGIR-ti-ia…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P336151.
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/P336151/..
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P336151/.
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