SAA 21 050. Fear not: I Shall not Deport You (ABL 0541)[via saao/saa21]
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| o 2'2' | (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" — | |
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| o 7'7' | (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. | |
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| r 22 | (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].. | |
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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/.