Position in chronology
SAA 13 093. Broken Report of Arrival of Horses: Day 23 (ABL 0684)
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! (Break) (r 1) [x] Kushite [horses]; (r 2) 39 cavalry mounts from the commander-in-chief; (r 4) 47 cavalry mounts from Mazamua: (r 6) a total of 86 cavalry mounts — (r 8) 103 horses in all — have come in today. (r 11) 23rd day. (r 12) Grand total 348.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / ARAD-ka mdAG—MU—AŠ / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / KUR.ku-sa-a-a / 39 KUR-MEŠ ša BAD-ḪAL-li / ša LÚv.tur-tan-ni / 47 KUR-MEŠ ša BAD-ḪAL-li / ša KUR.za-mu-a / PAB 86 ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ / ša BAD-ḪAL-li / PAB 01 me 03 ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ / UD-mu an-ni-u / e-tar-bu-u-ni / UD 23 / PAB 03 me 48
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 P334482.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334482). 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/P334482/.
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