SAA 15 083. Sending Horses to Calah, Snow Blocking the Roads (NL 061+)[via saao/saa15]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-belu-ka''in. The very best of health to the king, my lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^m^dPA—⸢EN—GIN⸣-in
o 33	lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía
o 44	a—dan-niš a—dan-niš
o 55	ša LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni	(5) Concerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Be at Calah on the 1st of Nisan (I)" — we are clearing the roads, but it is snowing and snow is filling them up. There is very much snow.
o 66	ma-a UD 01-KÁM ša ITI.BARAG
o 77	a-na URU.kal-ḫa er-ba
o 88	ḫu-la-a-ni ni-pat-ti
o 99	i-šak-kan ku-pu-u ú-ma-la
o 1010	ku-pu-u i-di-in a—dan-niš
o 1111	[x x x UD] ⸢03⸣-KÁM ša ITI.ZÍZ	(11) [...] the 3rd of Shebat (XI)
o 1212	[x x x x x]-qu-ul	(12) [...] ...
o 1313	[x x]+⸢x 20 ANŠE.KUR.RA⸣-[MEŠ]	(13) [...] he sent the first 20 horses.
o 1414	pa-ni-ú-te ú-⸢se⸣-[bi-la]	(13) [...] he sent the first 20 horses.
o 1515	ina ša-lu-ši-ni ki an-⸢ni⸣-[ma]	(15) The year before last, (when) there was as much snow, he gave me two chariots, and the men and horses who were with me died in the snow. I shall be in the king my lord's presence on the 6th or 7th of Nisan.
o 1616	ku-pu-u ⸢i⸣-di-⸢in⸣
o 1717	02 GIGIR-MEŠ i-tan-na LÚ.ERIM-MEŠ
o 1818	⸢ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ ša⸣ i-si-ia
o 1919	ina ku-pe-e ⸢mi⸣-e-tú
o 2020	⸢šum-ma UD 06⸣-KÁM
Reverse
r 1r 1	šum-ma UD ⸢07⸣-KÁM ⸢ša ITI⸣.[BARAG]
r 22	ina IGI LUGAL be-lí-ía a-na-ku
r 33	ša LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni	(r 3) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "The men and horses should come with you" — hither[to] the ca[pti]ves
r 44	ma-a LÚ.ERIM-MEŠ ANŠE.<KUR>-MEŠ
r 55	i-si-ka lil-li-⸢ku-ni⸣
r 66	⸢ḫu-ub⸣-tu a-⸢da-ka⸣-[ni]
	break of about 5 lines	(Break)
r 12'12'	⸢i^?⸣-[x x x x x x]
r 13'13'	DUMU ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x]	(r 13) the son [of NN ...]
r 14'14'	la ⸢al^?⸣-[x x x x x]	(r 14) I shall not g[o ...]
r 15'15'	ina pa-ni-šú-nu ⸢ma-a⸣ [x x] ⸢la⸣-a	(r 15) to them, (and) "they will not come [...]."
r 16'16'	DU-ku-ni ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ	(r 16) We shall buy the horses and bring them. The mule express of Aššur-da''inanni should alert the equipment of the Arzuhinaeans.
r 17'17'	ni-laq-qi nu-bal kal-li-ú
r 18'18'	ša ^maš-šur—KALAG-an-ni ša-⸢aṣ⸣-bu-tú
r 19'19'	ša URU.ár-zu-ḫi-na-a.a
r 20'20'	lu-ti-ki

Adapted from Andreas Fuchs and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 15), 2001. 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/P428978/.