Position in chronology
SAA 05 171. Arrival of Foreign Princes with Horse Tribute (ABL 0466)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Yala[...], the crown prince of And[ia], is coming t[o ...], accompanied by the em[issary] Nergal-belu-uṣur. (6) 16 red horses; 13 irginu horses; 14 black horses; 1 Haršean horse; 1 tuanu horse; 6 mares; 5 mules; in all 51 horses from the crown prince of Andia. (r 4) Abat-šarri-uṣur, the Mannean emissary, is coming with them. I asked him: "Is the audience gift with you?" (r 11) He said: "[......] to [......]; (r.e. 13) "what[ever ...] ...[...]."
Source: Lanfranchi, G.B. & Parpola, S. 1990. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces. SAA 5. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa05/P334321/
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Transliteration
mia-la-[x x] / DUMU—LUGAL KUR.an-⸢di⸣-[a.a] / i-la-ka a-[na x x] / mdMAŠ.MAŠ—EN—PAB LÚv.⸢qur⸣-[bu-tú] / i-si-šu [o] / 16 ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ ⸢SA₅⸣-MEŠ / 13 KUR-MEŠ ir-gi-ni / 14 KUR-MEŠ GI₆-MEŠ / 01 KUR ḫar-šá-a.a / 01 KUR tu-a-nu / 06 KUR MÍ.ḪÚB-MEŠ / 05 ANŠE.GÌR.NUN.NA-MEŠ-šú / PAB 51 KUR-MEŠ ša DUMU—LUGAL / KUR.an-di-a.a / ma-bat—LUGAL—PAB LÚv.MAḪ / KUR.man-na-a.a : i-si-šú-nu / i-la-ka /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334321.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334321). source
Translation excerpted from Lanfranchi, G.B. & Parpola, S. 1990. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces. SAA 5. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa05/P334321/.
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