Position in chronology
SAA 13 115. One Hundred and Eighty-eight Horses and Mules Arrived Today (CT 53 434)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (b.e. 1) 18 E[gyptian] horses, (r 1) 157 cavalry mounts: (r 3) 175 horses in all; (r 4) 13 mules — (r 5) a total of 188 horses and mules have come in today.
Source: 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/P313847/
Why it matters
Transliteration
18 KUR-MEŠ KUR.⸢mu?⸣-[ṣur-a.a] / 01 me 57 KUR-MEŠ / ša BAD-ḪAL-li / PAB 01 me 75 KUR-MEŠ / 13 ANŠE.ku-din / PAB 01 me 88 KUR-MEŠ ANŠE.ku-din / UD-mu an-ni-u / 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 P313847.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313847). 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/P313847/.
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