Position in chronology
SAA 13 082. The Cavalry Gets Priority (ABL 0546)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(1) To the king, [my] lo[rd]: your servant Nabû-šu[mu-iddina]. Good health to the king, [my] lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! (5) We will give the first shipment that arrives from the household of the magnates to the cavalry. We will then wait for the rest of the shipment. (10) The king, my lord, may be asking: "For how many of the cava[lrymen] is the shipment co[ming]?" — it is c[oming] for 50 (separate) households. (14) We have given millstones, [household] ute[nsils], and pigs to these 50 cavalrymen [...]. (17) Beds, chairs [and ...] remain to [be given]. (19) [should the king] say: ["...] (20) [...]...[......] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia] / ARAD-ka mdAG—⸢MU⸣—[AŠ] / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-[ia] / dAG u dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ía / lik-ru-bu šá-az-bu-us-su / ša É LÚv.GAL-MEŠ pa-ni-tu-ma / ša tal-la-kan-ni a-na LÚv.šá—BAD-ḪAL-MEŠ / ni-da-an pa-an re-eḫ-ti / šá-az-bu-us-si ni-da-gal / i—su-ri LUGAL be-lí i-qa-bi / ma-a ša ki ma-ṣi ša LÚv.⸢BAD⸣-[ḪAL-MEŠ] / šá-az-bu-us-su tal-⸢la⸣-[ka] / ša 50 É-MEŠ tal-[la-ka] /…
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 P334371.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334371). 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/P334371/.
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