SAA 05 064. Horses from the East (ABL 0192)[via saao/saa05]


Obverse
o 1o 1	⸢a-na LUGAL⸣ [EN]-⸢ia⸣	(1) To the king, my [lord]: your servant Na'di-ilu. Good health to the king, my lord!
o 22	⸢ARAD-ka ^mI—DINGIR⸣
o 33	⸢lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL⸣ EN-ia
o 44	UD ⸢27-KÁM⸣	(4) The first 120 horses of Nabû-remanni arrived in Arzuhina on the 27th. They will be there for the 28th and set out (again) on the 29th.
o 55	01 me ⸢20 ANŠE.KUR⸣.RA pa-ni-iu-te
o 66	ša ⸢^m^dPA—rém-a-ni⸣
o 77	ina URU.ur-zu-ḫi-na
o 88	iq-ṭa-ra-bu-u-ni
o 99	UD 28-KÁM ina ŠÀ-bi-ma šú-nu
o 1010	UD 29-KÁM ú-na-mu-šú
o 1111	al-lak ina URU.sa-re-e	(11) I shall go and bring them across (the river) to Sarê and keep them in Sarê for the 30th, until the later (horses) reach me.
o 1212	ú-še-bir-šú-nu
o 1313	UD 30^!-KÁM
o 1414	ina URU.sa-re-e-ma
o 1515	ak-la-šú-nu
o 1616	a-di É
Reverse
r 1r 1	EGIR-MEŠ
r 22	i-qar-bu-u-ni-ni
r 33	i-se-niš ANŠE.KUR.RA-ME	(r 3) All the same, the horses have been heavily pressed; the foals should rest out.
r 44	ga-mu-zu^*
r 55	lip-šu-ḫu
r 66	bur-ba-a-ni

Adapted from Giovanni B. Lanfranchi and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 5), 1990. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2009-11, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P334137/.