SAA 21 020. He is Shut up in the City with All His Forces (ABL 1186)[via saao/saa21]
| Obverse | ||
| oo | beginning (two lines) broken away | |
| o 1'1' | ṣab-⸢bi⸣-[ta] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | (1) “tak[e prisoners …….]; I shall send you forces.” |
| o 2'2' | ||
| o 3'3' | (3') But you, when you saw this, why did you not kill those who were to be killed and take prisoners those who were to be taken prisoners? Certainly (the troops) who came were not more numerous than you! | |
| o 4'4' | ||
| o 5'5' | ||
| o 6'6' | ||
| o 7'7' | ||
| o 8'8' | (8') Now fear not, but guard my temples. He is shut up in the city with all his forces, and my army is surrounding him. | |
| o 9'9' | ||
| o 10'10' | ||
| o 11'11' | ||
| o 12'12' | (12') Now, wherever you see a messenger of his, kill those who are to be killed and take prisoners those who are to be taken prisoners. | |
| o 13'13' | ||
| o 14'14' | ||
| rest (one line) uninscribed | ||
| Bottom | ||
| b.e.b.e. | uninscribed | |
| Reverse | ||
| rr | beginning (two lines) broken away | |
| r 1'1' | ina [x x x x x x x x x] | (r 1') in [.......] |
| r 2'2' | ki-⸢i⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | (r 2') if [......] |
| r 3'3' | 10 ⸢EN⸣ [x x x x x x x] | (r 3') ten [......] |
| r 4'4' | ep-pa-[x x x x x x x x] | (r 4') d[o ……] |
| rest uninscribed |
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/P424868/.