SAA 21 152. Tablet of Ashurbanipal' s Magnates Concerning Horses (ABL 0623)[via saao/saa21]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) A tablet of the magna[tes of Assurbanipal] to the eunuch of [NN] and the deputy [...] of the city [...]: | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | ||
o 44 | ša URU.⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
o 55 | ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ [x x x] | (5) The horses [...] |
o 66 | ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ [x x x] | (6) horses [...] |
o 77 | (7) the interest o[f ...] | |
o 88 | ANŠE.ku-din-MEŠ [x x x] | (8) mules [...] |
rest (about 7 lines) broken away | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | beginning (about 7 lines) broken away | |
r 1'1' | (r 1) Don’t be negligent and si[n]! ... | |
r 2'2' | (r 2) Guard the letter, it must be present with the horses at the review. They will read [it] in the ki[ng’s] presence, it is evidence. | |
r 3'3' | ||
r 4'4' | ||
r 5'5' | ||
r 6'6' | ši-i mu-kin-⸢tu⸣ [0] | |
three lines uninscribed |
Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Ashurbanipal, Part I: Letters from Assyria, Babylonia, and Vassal States (State Archives of Assyria, 21), 2018. Adapted by Jamie Novotny and lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2018, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P393867/.