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SAA 21 141

  • CDLI P424577
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Accession no.: DT 317
  • Primary publication(s): ABL 1364

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: (unknown)
  • Location: (unknown)
  • Recipient: [the king]

SAA 21 141. I've Been Labeled as Undependable (ABL 1364)[via saao/saa21]

Obverse
beginning broken away

(Beginning destroyed)

1'1'

[x x x x x] x+[x x]

2'2'

x+[x x x] É-ka

(2') I am a [...] of your house. Your father appointed me in the service of the master of (harem) women, and I did (my) work.

3'3'

a-na-ku AD-ka

4'4'

ina IGI .GAL-MEŠ

5'5'

ip-taq-da-an-ni

6'6'

dul*-lu e-tap-áš

7'7'

ú-ma-a an-nu-rig

(7') Now then they have labeled me as undependable and have watered down my ability.

8'8'

ú-sa-am-mu-ni

9'9'

Á.2-MEŠ-ia A-MEŠ

10'10'

un-tal-li-ú

Bottom
b.e.b.e. uninscribed

Reverse
r 1r 1

mDI-muAPIN- .mu-kilKUŠ.PA-MEŠ

(r 1) Šulmu-ereš the chariot driver, Dadi-ibni,, the third man, (and) Adad-remanni the weaver, who fled from the presence of your father in order not to be killed, have instigated a fight between me and Sagab. They now [...] between me

r 22

mU.U .03.U₅

r 33

m10—rém-a-ni ..BAR

r 44

ša TAv pa-ni du-a-ku

r 55

TAv pa-ni AD-ka

r 66

iḫ-liq-u-ni

r 77

bir-tu-ú-a

r 88

bir-ti msa-gab

r 99

ú-sa-an-ḫi-ṣu

r 1010

ú*-ma*-a* bir-tu-u-a

r 1111

[x x x x x x]-bu

rest (about 3 lines) destroyed

(Break)

Left
l.e. 1l.e. 1

uk-ta-ši-du-u-ni ma-[a x x x x]

(l.e. 1) they have chased me, saying: “You are [......]

l.e. 22

at-ta* [x x x x]


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/P424577/.