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SAA 21 007

  • CDLI P237638
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Accession no.: 1889-04-26 Bu, 0012
  • Primary publication(s): ABL 1165

Details

  • Provenience: Kuyunjik (Nineveh)
  • Archive: 099 - Miscellaneous
  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Babylonian)
  • Genre: Administrative Letter
  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Babylonian

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Ashurbanipal (668-ca. 631)
  • Dated: no
  • Proposed Date: (647*-646*)

Sender Information

  • Sender: [the king]
  • Location: Nineveh
  • Recipient: [Babylonians]
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SAA 21 007. God has Commanded the Destruction of the Land of Akkad (ABL 1165)[via saao/saa21]

Obverse
oo beginning (10-11 lines) broken away

Beginning destroyed

o 1'1'

[x]-MEŠ-ku-nu ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x]

(1) your [...]s have been seized and despised in my name, your houses have been destroyed for my sake.

o 2'2'

ina UGU MU-ía ṣab-tu ù se-lu-[ú]

o 3'3'

É-MEŠ-ku-nu ina UGU-ḫi-ía ḫe-pa-a

o 4'4'

a-ni-ni ul ni-di ul ni-is-ḫu*-pa*

(4) We did not know (about it, and so) did not overwhelm (them); wie had been asleep (but) we woke up and caused the army to attack.

o 5'5'

ú-tu-la-ni nit-te-ba-a is-ḫu

o 6'6'

nu-ul-te-eš-ḫi-ṭa ul-tu

(6) From the beginning, why and for what reason did he do what he did? And the rebels who devised this plot, what fortune did they gain for themselves? Perhaps God himself has commanded the destruction of the Land of Akkad. What can we say? [...] before God.

o 7'7'

re-eš-su šá i-pu-šú ina UGU mì-ni-i

o 8'8'

ina UGU a.a-i-tú a-mat i-pu-uš-ma

o 9'9'

u e-pi-šá-nu-tú šá nik-lu

Bottom
b.e. 10'b.e. 10'

a-ga-a ik-ki-lu mi-nu-u

b.e. 11'11'

SIG₅ ina IGI ra-ma-ni-šú-nu

Reverse
r 1r 1

iš-ku-nu mìn-de-ma DINGIR šu-u

r 22

ḫa-pu-ú šá KUR—URI.KI iq-ta-bi

r 33

mì-nu-ú ni-qab-bi ina IGI DINGIR

r 44

nu-[x x] ki-i (šá) AN.ŠÁR dAMAR.UTU

(r 4) [I shall do] as Aššur, Marduk and my [gods] enable me (to do).

r 55

[DINGIR-MEŠ-e]-a ú-šal-ú-in-ni

r 66

[ep-pu-uš] kit-tu šá ina UGU-ía

(r 6) Truly, he who [...s] on my behalf knows that
[...] before my gods

r 77

[x x x]-nu i-di ki-i

r 88

[x x x ina] IGI DINGIR-MEŠ-ia

rest broken away

Rest destroyed

Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Ashurbanipal, Part I: Letters from Assyria, Babylonia, and Vassal States (State Archives of Assyria, 21), 2018. Adapted by Jamie Novotny and 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. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P237638/.

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