Position in chronology
SAA 21 079. Sending Horses for Review (ABL 0302)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 21(1) The king's word to Nabû-šar-ahhešu: I am well; you can be glad. (6) Concerning the horses for the review about which you wrote, as a matter of course, we send for them at the new moon of the month of Adar (XII). Do come! (11) When the crippled were a hindrance, we sent them earlier, in Shebat (XI), for in the event of a severe cold, or even in (any) cold, they would die of cold. (r 4) Let us send them in mid-Shebat, so they can keep dragging them and coming for the (whole) month of Adar; then they will reach us within Nisan (I).
State Archives of Assyria, volume 21 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-bat LUGAL / a-na mdPA—MAN—PAB-MEŠ-šú / DI-mu ia-a-ši / ŠÀ-ba-ka / lu-u ṭa-ab-ka / ina UGU ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ / šá ma-šar-te / šá taš-pur-an-ni / ši-dím-ma ina ŠÀ ITI / šá ITI.ŠE ni-šap-par / al-ka ki-i LÚ.GÌR.AD₄ / ik-rim-u-ni / nu-uḫ-tar-rip / ina ŠÀ ITI.ZÍZ ni-is-sa-par / ina dan-ni-te šá ku-uṣ-ṣu / ina ku-uṣ-ṣi-im-ma / ina ku-uṣ-ṣu i-mut-tú / ina meš-la-te šá ITI.ZÍZ / ni-iš-pur bi-is / a-na ITI.ŠE i-šad-da-du-niš-šú-nu / il-la-ku-u-ni / il-la-ka ina ŠÀ ITI.BARAG / i-kaš-šá-du-u-ni
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P393750.
Attribution
Image: 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/P393750/..
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 2018. The Correspondence of Assurbanipal, Part I: Letters from Assyria, Central Babylonia, and Vassal States. SAA 21. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa21/P393750/.
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