SAA 09 004. Fragment of a Collection of Encouragement Oracles[via saao/saa09]

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1'1'

[x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x]

2'2'

[maš-šur—PAB]—⸢AŠ⸣ MAN KUR—aš-šur [x x x]

(2) [Esarhaddo]n, king of Assyria, [......]

3'3'

[ka]-⸢kiš⸣-a-ti ⸢ú⸣-[ba?-ra?]

(3) I will [catch ... and wease]ls, (and)

4'4'

[ina IGI] GÌR.2-ka ⸢a⸣-[kar-ra-ar]

(4) I will [cast them before] your feet.

5'5'

[at]-⸢ta?⸣ la ta-⸢pal⸣-[làḫ x x]

(5) [As for yo]u, fe[ar] not! [......]

6'6'

[x x]+⸢x⸣ ur-ki-u-te a-⸢kaš?⸣-[šad x x x]

(6) I will v[anquish] the later [......]

7'7'

[x x]-⸢ka⸣ tap-ta-an-[x x x]

(7) You shall ... yo[ur ......]

8'8'

[x x]-⸢ti⸣ a-šá-[kan x x]

(8) [...] I will p[ut ......]

9'9'

[x x x]+⸢x-ka-bar⸣ ina ⸢x⸣+[x x x]

(9) [...] massive in [...]

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(Rest destroyed)

Adapted from Simo Parpola, Assyrian Prophecies (State Archives of Assyria, 9), 1997. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P336677/.