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SAA 13 088. Report of Arrival of Horses: Day 5 (ABL 0071)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-šumu-iddina. The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! (7) 121 cavalry mounts, (8) 1 cavalry ...-mount: (9) 122 cavalry [mounts] in all have come in from the commander-in-chief, incomplete; (12) 5 cavalry mounts have come in from the governor of Calah, incomplete — (15) a total of 127 cavalry mounts have come in today. (17) [Concerning] the [hors]es trained to the yoke which came in yesterday from Barhalzi and Arrapha and about which I wrote to the king, my lord. — I will array them early in the morning. I will also array the hitched-up Mesean horses, which are kept hitched up at all times. (r 12) What are the written instructions of the king, my lord? (r 14) 5th day.
Source: Cole, S.W. & Machinist, P. 1998. Letters from Priests to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal. SAA 13. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa13/P334021/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / ARAD-ka mdAG—MU—AŠ / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / a—dan-niš a—dan-niš / dAG dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL / be-lí-ia lik-ru-bu / 01 me 21 KUR-MEŠ BAD-ḪAL-li / 01 šul-lam BAD-ḪAL-li / PAB 01 me 22 [KUR] BAD-ḪAL / ša LÚ.tur-ta-ni / e-tar-bu-u-ni la gam-ma-ru-ni / 05 KUR BAD-ḪAL ša LÚv.EN.NAM / ša URU.kal-ḫi e-tar-bu-u-ni / la gam-ma-ru-u-ni / PAB 01 me 27 KUR BAD-ḪAL / UD-mu an-ni-u…
Scholarly note
Letter from a temple priest or ritual official to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Steven Cole & Peter Machinist (SAA 13, 1998). ORACC text P334021.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334021). source
Translation excerpted from Cole, S.W. & Machinist, P. 1998. Letters from Priests to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal. SAA 13. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa13/P334021/.
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