SAA 04 321. Is the Rumour of Insurrection against Assurbanipal True? (ABL 1367) [military and political]

Obverse
o 1o 1

dma-an-la-ḫa-ar-ba-an*

(1) I ask you, Manlaharban:

o 22

a-šá-ʾa-al-ka da-ba-bu

(2) This rumor of an insurrection which was reported to Assurbanipal, king of Assyria, son of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, thus:

o 33

an-ni-i ša si-ḫi ša a-na m-šurA

o 44

MAN KUR-šur.KI DUMU m-šurPAB MAN KUR-ma

o 55

iq-bu-u-ni ma-a si-ḫu ina UGU-ḫi-ka*

(5) "They are making an insurrection against you,"

o 66

ep-pu-šú qa-bi-i ku-nu-u

(6) is it decreed and confirmed?

Reverse
r 1r 1

i-ba-áš-ši-i ket-tu-u o*

(r 1) Will it happen? Is it true? Will they catch me? Will I die? Will they capture me in the course of it?

r 22

i-kaš-šá-du-ni-i a-mu-a-ta

r 33

ina ŠÀ-bi i-ṣab-ba-tu-ni-i

r 44

e-zib ša ta-áš-ṭu-ru-ma

(r 4) Disregard that a woman has written it and placed it before you.

r 55

ina ma-ḫa-ri-ka ta-áš-ku-nu


Adapted from Ivan Starr, Queries to the Sungod: Divination and Politics in Sargonid Assyria (State Archives of Assyria, 4), 1990. 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/P334866/.