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SAA 21 022. I'm Sending You Two Hundred Horses (ABL 0273)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To Nabû-ušabši: (2) Concerning the horses about which you wrote, even before you wrote I sent the treasurer Aššur-gimilli-tere with the army. Do whatever is opportune to do, be it to block the canal or to [subjug]ate those people. (13) After the letter which you sent I am sending to you Bel-eṭir and Arbayu the cohort commander with 200 horses, to assist you in the work. (rest (2 lines) uninscribed)
Source: 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/P393831/
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Transliteration
a-na mdPA—GÁL-ši / ina UGU ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ / šá taš-pur-an-ni / ki-i ud-di-na / la ta-šap-par-an-ni / maš-šur—ŠU—GUR-ra LÚ.IGI.DUB / LÚ.e-muq-qi is-si-šú / as-sap-ra mì-i-nu / šá a-na e-pa-še / DÙG.GA-ú-ni ep-šá / BE*-ma* ÍD.ḫar-ru sik-ra / [BE]-⸢ma⸣ UN-MEŠ am-mu-te / [kub]-⸢sa*⸣ u id—da-at / [e]-gír-te šá taš-pur-an-ni / [m]dEN—KAR-ir / ⸢már⸣-ba-ía / LÚ.GAL—KA.KÉŠ 02-me / ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ ina ŠU.2-šú-nu / us-se-bi-lak-ka / li-iz-zi-zu / is-si-ku-nu dul-lu / le-pu-šu
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Assurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 21, 2018). ORACC text P393831.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P393831). source
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/P393831/.
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