SAA 13 112. Ninety-six Horses Arrived Today (ABL 0649)

~665 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P334450

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 13

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) [May DN and DN bless the king], my [lord]! (2) [x] Kushite hors[es] from the commander-in-chief of the left; (6) he is handing over in installments the 5 teams of colts of the memorandum; (11) [x]+5 Kushite horses and 33 cavalry mounts from the commander-in-chief; (r 4) 8 cavalry mounts from Šuhupa: (r 6) a total of 41 cavalry mounts — (r 7) 96 horses in all — have come in today.

State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[be-lí]-ia [lik-ru-bu] / [x] ANŠE.KUR.⸢RA⸣-[MEŠ] / KUR.ku-sa-a-a / ša LÚv.tur-tan-ni / ša šu-me-li / 05 ú-ra-a-te / ša ṣe-eḫ-ru-te / ša ḫi-se-te / ⸢ina⸣ bat*-ta-ta-a.a / [i]-⸢paq*⸣-qid-dan-ni / [x]+05 ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ / KUR.ku-sa-a-a / 33 KUR BAD-ḪAL-li / ša LÚv.tur-tan-ni / 08 KUR BAD-ḪAL-li / ša URU.šú-ḫu-pa / PAB 41 KUR BAD-ḪAL-li / PAB 96 ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ / UD-mu an-ni-ú / e-tar-bu-u-[ni]

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 P334450.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334450). 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/P334450/.

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