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SAA 21 019

  • CDLI P393846
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Accession no.: K 00914
  • Primary publication(s): ABL 0561

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: (650-648)

Sender Information

  • Sender: [the king]
  • Location: Nineveh
  • Recipient: [Nippureans]
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SAA 21 019. The Job is Not Yet Done (ABL 0561)[via saao/saa21]

Obverse
oo beginning (about 2-3 lines) broken away

Beginning destroyed

o 1'1'

[x] ni ⸢da*⸣ [x x x x x x]

o 2'2'

[x]-⸢me*⸣-50 ⸢LÚ⸣.[x x x x]

(2') [...] 50 m[en]

o 3'3'

[x x] ⸢la⸣ tu-uṣ-[x x]

(3') [...] you did not [...].

o 4'4'

ina UGU-ḫi-šu-nu e-ta-at-qu

(4') They proceeded against them, and you saw nothing. Issaran-mušallim could go out, run about, and re-enter (Babylon) as he wished, and again you saw nothing. Should it have been him and had he been fleeing, would he not have escaped and got away just like that?

o 5'5'

la ta-mu-ra mdKA.DI—mu-šal-lim

o 6'6'

ki-i ŠÀ-bi-šu it-tu-ṣi

o 7'7'

id-du-lu is-su-ḫur

o 8'8'

e-ta-rab la ta-mur-a-ma

o 9'9'

lu šu-ú šu-ú iḫ-liq

o 10'10'

la ki-i an-nim-ma-a

o 11'11'

ú-še-zib il-lik TAv ŠÀ

o 12'12'

UD-MEŠ am-ma-a-te ma-ṣar-tú

(12') Ever since those times you have kept watch and made yourself a good name in my presence; and you are enj[oying] your 'salt' for this in my presence.

o 13'13'

ta-at-ta-aṣ-ra

o 14'14'

šu-un-ku-nu ina IGI-ia

o 15'15'

tu-dam-mì-iq-qa

Bottom
b.e. 16'b.e. 16'

ṭa-ab-ta-ku-nu

b.e. 17'17'

ina ŠÀ-bi ina IGI-ia

b.e. 18'18'

nak-[x x] ⸢x⸣ [x]

Reverse
r 1r 1

a-na-ku ud-da TAv [re]-še

(r 1) I know that from the very beginning those people have not loved you, and that you do not love them either, but love the house of your lords.

r 22

UN-MEŠ am-mu-ú-te

r 33

la ra-i-mu-te-ku-nu

r 44

ù at-tu-nu la ta-ra-a-ma*-šú-nu

r 55

ra-i-mu-te šá É—EN-MEŠ-ku-nu

r 66

at-tu-nu la ki-i an-ni-e

(r 6) No doubt you are thinking like this: "The job is do[ne]." But certainly the guard is doubly essential today, as life has begun to get narrow for them! Now, just as you have from the beginning stood by, kept watch and made yourself a good name in my presence, stand by even now and [...] your house [......]

r 77

ta-qab-bi-a ma-a dul-lu

r 88

[gam]-mur la ú-ma-a šu-ú

r 99

ma-aṣ-ṣar-tu né-me-il

r 1010

i-si-qa-áš-šá-nu-ú-ni

r 1111

ú-ma-a ki-i šá TAv re-še

r 1212

ta-zi-za-a-ni ma-ṣar-tu

r 1313

ta-ṣur-a-ni šu-un-ku-nu

r 1414

ina IGI-ia tu-dam-mì-qa-a-ni

r 1515

ú-ma-a i-ti-is-sa

r 1616

[x x] É-ku-nu

r 1717

[x x x] ⸢x⸣ ud ⸢x⸣ ši

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/P393846/.

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