ABC 22 (Chronicle P)
Chronicle P (ABC 22) is one of the historiographical texts from ancient Babylonia. It deals with several conflicts between Assyria, Babylonia, and Elam in the fourteenth to twelfth century BCE. It may be a Babylonian adaptation of the Assyrian Synchronic Chronicle.
For a very brief introduction to the literary genre of chronicles, go here. The translation on this webpage was adapted from A.K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (1975) and Jean-Jacques Glassner, Mesopotamian Chronicles (Atlanta, 2004).
The tablet, BM 92701 (82-7-4, 38), upon which Chronicle P is inscribed is in very poor condition. The fragment is 180 mm wide and 120 mm long and represents only about one third of the original tablet. The fragment comes from the bottom portion of the chronicle.
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[iii.1'] ... |
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[iii.2'] N thousand ... |
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[iii.3'] N thousand ... |
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[iii.4'] one thousand piebald horses their gift ... |
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[iii.5'] Henote seized the spy and brought the knight ... |
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[iii.6'] He set a watch and ... |
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[iii.7'] the return, your path. Silver, gold, precious stones, ... |
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[iii.8'] I brought. |
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[iii.9'] I ... Babylon and Borsippa, upon/over me ... |
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[iii.10'] Hurbatila, king of Elam, wrote to Kurigalzu: |
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[iii.11'] "Come! At Dur-Šulgi, I and you, |
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[iii.12'] let us do battle together!" Kurigalzu heard ... |
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[iii.13'] He went to conquer Elam and Hurbatila, |
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[iii.14'] king of Elam, did battle against him at Dur-Šulgi. |
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[iii.15'] Hurbatila retreated before him and Kurigalzu brought about their defeat. |
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[iii.16'] He captured the king of Elam. All of Elam ... |
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[iii.17'] Bowing down, Hurbatila, king of Elam, said: |
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[iii.18'] "I know, king Kurigalzu, that this ... |
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[iii.19'] with the kings of all lands I have brought the tribute of Elam." |
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[iii.20'] He went to conquer Adad-nirari, king of Assyria. |
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[iii.21'] He did battle against him at Sugaga, which is on the Tigris, and brought about his defeat. |
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[iii.22'] He slaughtered his soldiers and captured his officers.
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[iii.23'] Nazi-maruttaš, son of ... note |
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[iii.24'] king of Assyria in .... [lacuna] |
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