SAA 03 028. Fragment of an Adulatory Letter to a King[via saao/saa03]
Obverse | ||
oo | beginning broken away | |
o 1'1' | [x x x x] ⸢x bit⸣-tu ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | (1) [Say to Assurbanipal ......] |
o 2'2' | [x x x x] šu-ṭu-ub-bu UGU ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
o 3'3' | [x x x] le-ʾu-ú da-ba-bu ḫa-as-⸢su⸣ | (3) [......] the eloquent, intelligent one, [who] gives orders [to ......], |
o 4'4' | [x x i]-šak-ka-nu ṭè-e-⸢mu⸣ | |
o 5'5' | (5) [the lord to whom all the kings from the Upper Sea] until the Lower Sea of [Sun]set [......] have brought tribute and submitted to his yoke, | |
o 6'6' | [x x x]-⸢uš⸣-šú iš-šu-niš-šú bil-tú i-šu-ṭu ap-šá-an-šú | |
o 7'7' | [x x x]-nu-ú mu-bal-liṭ ke-e-ni | (7) [......] who gives life to the righteous one, [...... the] revealer of Šamaš, who does not countenance calumny, [......] who rescues the wronged one, |
o 8'8' | [x x mu]-kal-lim dUTU la ma-ḫir kar-ṣi | |
o 9'9' | ||
o 10'10' | [x x x] bu-un-ni-šú la iš-šá-bu-u | (10) [...... of whose] features one does not get sated, [who]se sweet lips [......], [......] who turns [want] and scarcity into plentifulness: |
o 11'11' | [x x x]-⸢nu⸣ šap-ta-⸢a⸣-[šú] du-uš-šu-pa-a-te | |
o 12'12' | [x x x]-MEŠ u i-ṣa-a-ti a-na mu-uʾ-de-e ú-tar-ru | |
o 13'13' | (13) [thus (speaks) ......, who] for the sake of your life, [for your happiness and] your physical health, [and for the ...] of your body [...... constantly] prays to the great gods: | |
o 14'14' | [x x ṭu]-⸢ub⸣ UZU-MEŠ-ka | |
o 15'15' | ||
o 16'16' | ||
rest broken away | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | beginning broken away | |
r 1'1' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] | |
r 2'2' | [x x a]-na šu-pa-li la ú-ra-[du-ni] | |
r 3'3' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ GIŠ.nu-úr-ma-a šá Ú.⸢LÁ⸣ | |
r 4'4' | (r 4) [......] a goblet to drink the healing potion of Nisan | |
r 5'5' | ||
r 6'6' | [x x x] ⸢ú⸣-ka-lu-u-ni e-ni a-na ŠÀ-bi | |
r 7'7' | [x x x]-tu URU.ṣur-ri | |
r 8'8' | ||
r 9'9' | ||
r 10'10' | ||
r 11'11' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ e-⸢na⸣-[a-ti] | |
r 12'12' | [x x x]-pa-at ú-lu uḫ-[x x] | |
r 13'13' | ||
r 14'14' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ KUR šá ba-ṣa-a-ti šá ⸢KUR.NIM⸣.MA.⸢KI⸣ [x x] | |
r 15'15' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ u KUŠ.GU₄.GAL [x x] | |
r 16'16' | [x x x x x] ⸢na⸣-áš-šu-u-ni | |
r 17'17' | [x x x x] KUR ⸢x x⸣ [x x x] | |
rest broken away |
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/P336602/.