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SAA 13 100. One Hundred and Seven Horses and Mules Arrived Today (ABL 0545)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [T]o the k[ing, my lord]: your servant Na[bû-šumu-iddina]. The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! (7) The 7th is the day for balancing accounts. May Nabû forevermore balance the account of the king, my lord, and those of the sons of my lord, in his ledger of life! (13) 3 horses, (14) [......], (r 1) [...]...[...]: (r 2) 67 horses and 8 mules: (r 3) 75 in all from Guzana; (r 4) 2 horses from Calah: (r 5) a total of 99 cavalry mounts and 8 mules, (r 7) 107 in all, have come in today. (r 9) Should I array the horses early in the morning? What is it that the king, my lord, [commands]?
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/P334370/
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Transliteration
[a]-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-lí-ia] / ARAD-ka md⸢AG⸣—[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 / UD 07-KÁM e-peš nik-ka-si / dAG ina GIŠ.LI.U₅.UM-šú / ša ba-la-ṭi nik-ka-su / ša LUGAL be-lí-ia / ù ša DUMU-MEŠ EN-ia / [a]-na UD-me ṣa-a-ti / [le-pu]-uš* 03 KUR-MEŠ / [x x x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / 67 KUR-MEŠ 08 ku-din-MEŠ / PAB 75…
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 P334370.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334370). 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/P334370/.
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