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This subproject of State Archives of Assyria online (SAAo) includes web versions of the 161 Neo-Assyrian texts edited in the book Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Assurbanipal, Part I: Letters from Assyria, Babylonia, and Vassal States (State Archives of Assyria, 21), 2018. The corpus can be browsed by clicking on this link [/saao/saa21/pager]. Buy the book from Eisenbrauns [https://www.eisenbrauns.org/books/titles/978-952-10-9498-9.html], an imprint of Penn State University Press.

The editions presented on SAAo/SAA21 have been adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Assurbanipal, Part I: Letters from Assyria, Babylonia, and Vassal States (State Archives of Assyria, 21), 2018, and they were lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2018, 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.

Click here [/saao/index.html] to visit the Main SAAo Portal and this link [/saao/pager] to browse the entire SAA corpus.

The web version of the introduction of SAA 21 was prepared by Ishbel Russell and Ashleigh Taylor, 2020, as part of a Summer work placement programme in connection with the Cambridge-LMU Strategic Partnership project "The Neo-Assyrian Empire: Digital and Comparative Approaches" (Cambridge PI: Augusta McMahon; LMU PI: Karen Radner).

Since August 2015, SAAo has been part of the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative [https://www.en.ag.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/research/mocci/index.html] (MOCCI), which is based at and supported by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München [https://www.en.uni-muenchen.de/index.html]. Between 2015 and 2020, work on SAAo was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation [https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/home.html] through funds provided to LMU's Alexander von Humboldt Chair of the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East [https://www.en.ag.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/chairs/chair_radner/staff_radner/index.html].

For further details, see the "About the Project" [/saao/abouttheproject/index.html] page.