Position in chronology
SAA 13 087. Report of Arrival of Horses: Sivan 4 (ABL 0376)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-šumu-iddina. The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! (7) [x] Kushite horses, (8) [x] ...-horses of Kushite stock: (9) 2[4] Kushite horses total; (10) 10 cavalry mounts, 13 mules: (11) 50 in all from Damascus; (12) 10 Kushite horses [from the] recruits: (r 1) a total of 34 Kushite horses and 10 cavalry mounts — (r 3) 44 horses and 16 mules all together — (r 4) a grand total of 60 have come in today. (r 6) Month of Sivan (III), 4th day.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / ARAD-ka mdPA—MU—AŠ / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL / be-lí-ia a—dan-niš a—dan-niš / dAG dAMAR.UTU / [a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL EN-ía lik-ru-bu / [x] KUR-MEŠ ku-sa-a-a / [x KUR-MEŠ ṣi]-ib-te ku-sa-a-a / PAB ⸢24⸣ KUR-MEŠ ku-sa-a-a / 10 KUR BAD-ḪAL 13 ANŠE.ku-din / PAB 50 URU.dim-maš?-qa? / 10 KUR ku-sa-a-a / [ša LÚv].rak-su-MEŠ / PAB 34 KUR ku-sa-a-a / 10 KUR-MEŠ BAD-ḪAL-li / PAB 44 KUR-MEŠ 16 ANŠE.ku-din / PAB 60 UD-mu an-ni-u / e-tar-bu-ú-ni / ITI.SIG₄ UD 04-KÁM
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 P334252.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334252). 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/P334252/.
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