Return to SAA 21 pager

Visit SAA 21 home page

SAA 21 metadata help

Visit SAAo home page

Visit Oracc help

SAA 21 084

  • CDLI P393904
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Accession no.: K 01496

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

Sender Information

  • Sender: [the king]
  • Location: Nineveh
  • Recipient: (unknown)
  • View dossier

SAA 21 084. Fragment Possibly Related to the Šamaš-šsumu-ukin War[via saao/saa21]

Obverse
oo beginning broken away

(Beginning destroyed)

o 1'1'

[x x x taš]-⸢pur-an-ni⸣

(1') ... when she sen]t me

o 2'2'

[x x x x] taš-kun-an-⸢ni⸣

(2') ...] she placed me

o 3'3'

[x x x] ⸢x⸣ lum-ma-a-ši

(3') ...] constellation

o 4'4'

[x x x ina] ŠÀ-bi-šú tak-ru-ban-ni

(4') ...] she blessed me there.

o 5'5'

[x x ina UD?]-me-šú na-mur-tú

(5') ... At] that [time],

o 6'6'

[x x x] ⸢x⸣ ú-qar-rib

(6') ... did not] bring the audience gift

o 7'7'

[x x x] ⸢ṣal⸣-tú uq-ter-rib

(7') but ...] offered strife.

o 8'8'

[x x x x] KUG.GI ḪAR ⸢si-par⸣-ri

(8') ...] golden [...], b[ron]ze bracelet

o 9'9'

[x x x uq]-tar-rib šá ⸢x⸣+[x x x]

(9') ... I p]resented [...]

o 10'10'

[x x] ⸢x⸣ iz-⸢za⸣-[kar x x]

(10') ...] he utter[ed ...]

o 11'11'

[x x] ⸢x⸣ kar ⸢x⸣+[x x]

o 12'12'

[x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x]

rest broken away

(rest broken away)

Reverse
rr beginning broken away

(beginning broken away)

r 1'1'

[x x x x x x] a ⸢x⸣+[x x x]

(r 1') ......] ... [...]

r 2'2'

[x x x x x x]-in-ni [0]

(r 2') ......ed] me

r 3'3'

[x x x x x x] šuk-lu-⸢lu⸣

(r 3') ......] perfec[t]

r 4'4'

[x x x x x x] ʾa ⸢x⸣+[x x x]

(r 4') ......] ... [...]

r 5'5'

[x x x x x]-ka a-ki ⸢LÚv⸣.[GÌR].⸢AD₄?⸣

(r 5') ......] like a cr[ippled m]an

r 6'6'

[x x x x]-bil šad-daq-⸢da⸣

(r 6') ... se]nt. Last year,

r 7'7'

[x x x x]-⸢ia⸣ i-te-ni-ši ⸢maš⸣-li

(r 7') ...] my [...] weakened, and half of

r 8'8'

[x x x x]-⸢ki⸣-a-te

(r 8') ... in neces]sities

r 9'9'

[x x x x] ⸢in⸣-na-ši

(r 9') ... w]as taken way

r 10'10'

[x x x x x] ra-⸢bi-tú⸣

(r 10') ...] great [...]

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/P393904/.