SAA 21 106. Marduk-šarru-uṣur visits Tammaritu and Other Matters (ABL 0960)[via saao/saa21]
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| oo | beginning broken away | |
| o 1'1' | [x x x]-a [x x] ⸢šá*⸣ md⸢PA⸣—[x x] | (1) [Of the ...s o]f Nab[û-...], no one tarried in E[l]am, they have returned to Babyl[on]. They tell me the news of Marduk-šarru-uṣur: “We have seen (it); [he] went for dinner to Tammaritu in our presence.” [I] have sent other men, too, telling them to go and speak with him, return, and give me a sign from him. |
| o 2'2' | [x x x] ina ⸢KUR.NIM⸣.MA.KI 01+en | |
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| o 11'11' | (11) I sent (this) report to the king, my lord, as soon as I heard it; the king, my lord, should know (it). | |
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| o 13'13' | (13) Earlier I told the king, my lord, that Šamaš-šumu-ukin will become hostile. When they heard of it, [hoping] to kill me, they ordered me to [... yo]ur gods with my hands, and (when) for that reason I grasped the king, my lord’s feet, [the king, my lord] sent to remove [... t]he Chaldeans [...] (and) the temple servants from Dur-Šarrukku. | |
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| b.e. 16'b.e. 16' | [x x x] ⸢x⸣ DINGIR-⸢MEŠ-ka⸣ ina ŠU.2-ia | |
| b.e. 17'17' | [x] ⸢x a? iq⸣-bu-in-ni u a-na ŠÀ-bi | |
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| b.e. 19'19' | [x x x x] ⸢LÚ⸣.kal-da-ni | |
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | [x x x x]-sa-ni LÚ.la-mu-ta-nu | |
| r 22 | ⸢x⸣ [x] ⸢iš⸣-pur-am-ma ul-tu | |
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| r 44 | (r 4) The king, my lord, should not send them here. If it pleases the king, my lord, let the king, my lord, order that they should be shown a house in Nineveh and live there, and [let me] send my domestics of foreign origin, who were settled in Nippur, to live with them, and may the(ir) [ex]ile come to an end. | |
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| r 1010 | (r 10) [My bl]ood is in Assyria, among the blood of the land of Akkad. | |
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| r 1313 | [x] ⸢x⸣ i-na ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
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Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Assurbanipal, 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/P393916/.