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SAA 21 050

  • CDLI P393751
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Accession no.: K 00097
  • Primary publication(s): ABL 0541

Details

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

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Ashurbanipal (668-ca. 631)
  • Dated: no
  • Proposed Date: (before 664)

Sender Information

  • Sender: [the king]
  • Location: Nineveh
  • Recipient: [Gambulians]
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SAA 21 050. Fear not: I Shall not Deport You (ABL 0541)[via saao/saa21]

Obverse
obeginning (about 3 lines only) broken away

Beginning destroyed

o 1'1'

[ina UGU x x] ša* v.ru [ša]

o 2'2'

[taš]-pur-a-ni ma-a GÌR.2-ka*

(2') [Concerning the o]f the R[u'u] tribe [about which you wr]ote, "We want to grasp your feet; we are afraid of getting deported by Assyria and of being exposed to Elam"

o 3'3'

ni-iṣ-bat ma-a pal-ḫa-a-ni

o 4'4'

TAv IGI šá-ga-lu-ti ša KUR-šur

o 5'5'

TAv IGI tu-ru-te ša ku-tal-li

o 6'6'

a-na KUR.NIM.MA.KI

o 7'7'

ú-ma-a ki-i ša taq-bi-a-ni

(7) Now, in accordance with what you said, come before Bel-iqiša, and let him put you in a territory that you like. Stay there as my subjects and guard the fortress of R[u'u] with Bel-iqiša.

o 8'8'

ina IGI mENBA-šá al-ka-a-ni

o 9'9'

kaq-qu-ru É ta-ra-ʾa*-ma-ni

o 10'10'

lu-šá-aṣ-bit-ku-nu

o 11'11'

ina ŠÀ-bi ši-i-ba

Bottom
b.e. 12'b.e. 12'

ARAD-MEŠ-ni-ia at-tu-nu

b.e. 13'13'

URU.ḪAL.ṢU ša v.ru*

Reverse
r 1r 1

TAv mENBA-šá

r 22

uṣ-ra ina ŠÀ DINGIR-MEŠ-ía

(r 2) I swear by my gods that I shall not deport you and not expose you to Elam. I am writing to you: fear not [bec]au[se] of this [matter]..

r 33

at-ta-ma šum-ma a-na-ku

r 44

ú-šá-ga-lu-ka-nu-ni

r 55

šum-ma a-na ku-tal

r 66

ú-sa-ḫa-ru-ka-nu-<ni>

r 77

a-na KUR.NIM.MA

r 88

as-sap-rak-ku-nu

r 99

la ta-pal-la-ḫa

r 1010

[TAv] IGI [a-bi-te] an*-ni*-te

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/P393751/.

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