SAA 13 086

CDLI P334248
Collection no.: BM —
Accession no.: 1880-07-19, 0026
Primary publication(s): ABL 0372

Provenance

Provenience: Kuyunjik (Nineveh) (Pleiades ID: 874621)
Archive: 099 - Miscellaneous

Object Details

Object type: tablet
Material: clay

Text Details

Language: Akkadian
Genre: Priestly Letter
Sender: Nabu-šumu-iddina (Nadinu)

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal
Dated: no
Proposed Date: 680-669 or 668-ca. 631

Views

SAA 13 086. Report of Arrival of Horses: Sivan 2 (ABL 0372) [via SAAO/SAA13]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-šumu-iddina. The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^m^dAG—MU—AŠ
o 33	lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL
o 44	be-lí-ia a—dan-niš a—dan-niš
o 55	^dAG ^dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL
o 66	be-lí-ia lik-ru-bu
o 77	13 ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ KUR.ku-sa-a-a	(7) 13 Kushite horses,
o 88	03 KUR-MEŠ ṣi-ib-te	(8) 3 ...-horses of Kushite stock:
o 99	ša KUR.ku-sa-a-a	(8) 3 ...-horses of Kushite stock:
o 1010	PAB 16 KUR-MEŠ ša ni-i-ri	(10) 16 horses trained to the yoke in all;
o 1111	14 KUR-MEŠ ša BAD-ḪAL-li	(11) 14 cavalry mounts:
o 1212	PAB 30 ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ	(12) 30 horses total;
o 1313	09 ANŠE.ku-din-MEŠ	(13) 9 mules:
o 1414	[PAB] 39 URU.qar-né-e	(14) 39 [in all] from Qarnê;
Reverse		(14) 39 [in all] from Qarnê;
r 1r 1	06 KUR-MEŠ KUR.ku-sa-a-a	(r 1) 6 Kushite horses,
r 22	[03] ⸢ṣi⸣-ib-tu ša KUR-MEŠ	(r 2) [3] ...s of Kushite horses:
r 33	[KUR].ku-sa-a-a	(r 2) [3] ...s of Kushite horses:
r 44	[PAB] 09 ša ni-i-ri	(r 4) 9 trained to the yoke in all;
r 55	14 KUR-MEŠ ša BAD-ḪAL-li	(r 5) 14 cavalry mounts:
r 66	PAB 23 KUR-MEŠ	(r 6) 23 horses total;
r 77	05 ANŠE.ku-din-MEŠ	(r 7) 5 mules:
r 88	PAB 28 URU.da-a-na	(r 8) 28 in all from Dâna;
r 99	19 KUR-MEŠ ku-sa-a-a	(r 9) 19 Kushite horses,
r 1010	38 KUR-MEŠ ša BAD-ḪAL	(r 10) 38 cavalry mounts:
r 1111	PAB 57 URU.kul-la-ni-a	(r 11) 57 in all from Kullania;
r 1212	25 KUR-MEŠ ša BAD-ḪAL-li 03 ANŠE.ku-din-MEŠ	(r 12) 25 cavalry mounts, 3 mules:
r 1313	PAB 31 URU.ar-pad-da	(r 13) 31 in all from Arpad, incomplete;
r 1414	la gam-ma-ru-u-ni	(r 13) 31 in all from Arpad, incomplete;
r 1515	13 KUR-MEŠ ša BAD-ḪAL-li	(r 15) 13 cavalry mounts,
r 1616	10 ANŠE.ku-din-MEŠ	(r 16) 10 mules:
r 1717	PAB 23 URU.i-sa-na	(r 17) 23 in all from Isana:
Edge		(r 17) 23 in all from Isana:
e. 1e. 1	[PAB 45] KUR-MEŠ ku-sa-a-a 01 me 04 KUR-MEŠ ša BAD-ḪAL-li	(e. 1) [a total of 45] Kushite horses and 104 cavalry mounts —
e. 22	[PAB] 01 me 48 KUR-MEŠ 30 ANŠE.ku-din-MEŠ PAB 01 me 78 e-tar-bu-u-ni	(e. 2) 148 horses and 30 mules [all together] — a grand total of 178 have come in.
e. 33	ITI.SIG₄ UD 02-KÁM	(e. 3) Month of Sivan (III), 2nd day.

Adapted from Steven W Cole, Peter Machinist, Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Priests to Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal (State Archives of Assyria, 13), 1998. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko and Silvie Zamazalová, 2011-13, 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/P334248/.