SAA 05 064. Horses from the East (ABL 0192)[via saao/saa05]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my [lord]: your servant Na'di-ilu. Good health to the king, my lord! | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | ||
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 | ||
o 77 | ||
o 88 | ||
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | UD 29-KÁM ú-na-mu-šú | |
o 1111 | (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 | ||
o 1313 | UD 30!-KÁM | |
o 1414 | ||
o 1515 | ||
o 1616 | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | ||
r 22 | ||
r 33 | (r 3) All the same, the horses have been heavily pressed; the foals should rest out. | |
r 44 | ||
r 55 | ||
r 66 |
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/.