Position in chronology
SAA 15 083. Sending Horses to Calah, Snow Blocking the Roads (NL 061+)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-belu-ka''in. The very best of health to the king, my lord! (5) Concerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Be at Calah on the 1st of Nisan (I)" — we are clearing the roads, but it is snowing and snow is filling them up. There is very much snow. (11) [...] the 3rd of Shebat (XI) (12) [...] ... (13) [...] he sent the first 20 horses. (15) The year before last, (when) there was as much snow, he gave me two chariots, and the men and horses who were with me died in the snow. I shall be in the king my lord's presence on the 6th or 7th of Nisan. (r 3)…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía / ARAD-ka mdPA—⸢EN—GIN⸣-in / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía / a—dan-niš a—dan-niš / ša LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni / ma-a UD 01-KÁM ša ITI.BARAG / a-na URU.kal-ḫa er-ba / ḫu-la-a-ni ni-pat-ti / i-šak-kan ku-pu-u ú-ma-la / ku-pu-u i-di-in a—dan-niš / [x x x UD] ⸢03⸣-KÁM ša ITI.ZÍZ / [x x x x x]-qu-ul / [x x]+⸢x 20 ANŠE.KUR.RA⸣-[MEŠ] / pa-ni-ú-te ú-⸢se⸣-[bi-la] / ina ša-lu-ši-ni ki…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P428978.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Andreas Fuchs and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 15), 2001. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2009-11, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P428978/..
Translation excerpted from Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P428978/.
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