SAA 15 330. Providing Horses with Straw (CT 53 474)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313887

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 15

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) where two, where three [......] (2) of the king [......] (3) he borrow[ed ......] (4) threw before his horses [...] (6) where horses [...] (7) they took away the straw of the house [...] (r 2) the former from [......] (r 3) he sea[led ......] (r 4) Now ...[...] (r 5) the horses of [......] (r 6) all the [......] (r 7) three [......] (Rest destroyed)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).

Transliteration

⸢É 02 É 03?⸣ [x x x x x] / ša LUGAL nu-[x x x x x] / ú-ḫu-ta-⸢bil⸣ [x x x x] / ina IGI ANŠE.KUR-MEŠ-šu [x x x x] / ik-ta-ar-[x x x x] / É ANŠE.KUR-MEŠ LÚv.[x x x x] / ŠE.IN.NU ša ⸢É⸣ [x x x x] / ip-tu-u-⸢gu⸣ [x x x x] / pa-ni-ú TAv [x x x x x] / ik-ta-na-[x x x x x] / ú-ma-a ku ka ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / ANŠE.KUR-MEŠ ša [x x x x x] / a—mar ⸢gi⸣-[x x x x x x] / ⸢03 x⸣+[x x x x x x x]

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P313887.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313887). source
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/P313887/.

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