SAA 21 056. Teumman Defeated at Bit-Imbî (CT 54 567)[via saao/saa21]

Obverse
obeginning broken away

(Beginning destroyed)

o 1'1'

[a]-du-ú x x (x) x-lu-ku

(1') [N]ow then ... they have split up Elam. The chief eunuch has seized Bit-Imbî, Sikdê the commander of archers, brother of Ummanaldasu, his sons have been killed, and their heads have been brought before me.

o 2'2'

KUR.NIM.MA.KI up-tar-ri-su

o 3'3'

.GALSAG URU.Émdim-bi-i

o 4'4'

iṣ-ṣa-bat msik-de-e .GALGIŠ.BAN

o 5'5'

ŠEŠ-šú ša mum-man-al-da-si

o 6'6'

ù DUMU-MEŠ-šú di-i-ku

o 7'7'

SAG.DU-MEŠ-šú-nu a-na IGI-ia

o 8'8'

na-šu-u-ni DAM mte-um-man

(8') The wife of Teumman, king of Elam, and his sons have been taken to me, and 11,000 soldiers have been killed at Bit-Im[b]î.

o 9'9'

MAN KUR.NIM.KI u DUMU-MEŠ-šú it-ta-šú-ni

o 10'10'

ù 11-lim ERIM-MEŠ i-na

o 11'11'

URU.Émim-[bi]-i id-du-ku?

o 12'12'

mdUTUKALAG-in-[an-ni x x x]

(12') When I sent Šamaš-da’’i[nan-ni ...] to Sam’una, the sheikhs of Sam’una, Lahiru, Dibirina, Dummuqu, Nugu’, Huwaya and Bab-duri, these sheikhs who had raised hands and whose hands I had grasped, [infli]cted a massacre in Šulaya and [plunde]red their booty.

Reverse
r 1r 1

a-na URU.šá-am-ú-nu

r 22

ki-i áš-pu-ru .na-sik-a-[te]

r 33

ša URU.šá-am-ʾu-ú-nu

r 44

KUR.la-ḫi-ri <URU>.di-bi-ri-na

r 55

URU.du-um-muq URU.nu-gu-

r 66

URU.ḫu-ú-a.a ù URU.BÀD-a

r 77

a-ga-an-nu-ti .na-sik-a-te

r 88

ša ŠU.2 id-ku-nim-ma

r 99

ù ŠU.2-su-nu aṣ-ba-

r 1010

di-ik?-? ina URU.šu-la-a.a

r 1111

[id]-du-ku .ḫu-bu-us-su-nu

r 1212

[iḫ-tab]-tu-nu ù URU-MEŠ

(r 12) Also, the cities [of ... have been burnt] with fire.

r 1313

[x (x)]+x BAR* ina ŠÀ i-šá-

r 1414

[x x x x x] at-ta

(r 14) [Y]ou [......]

r 1515

[x x x x x (x)]+x+[(x)]

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/P237688/.