SAA 19 190. Sending Horses to Calah, Snow Blocking the Roads (CTN 5 p. 102 and p. 316; SAA 15 83)
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-belu-ka''in. The very best of health to the king, my lord! | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | (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 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | [x x x x x]-qu-ul | |
| break of about 1 line | ||
| o 1414 | [x x]+⸢x 20 ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ⸣ | |
| o 1515 | ||
| o 1616 | (16) The year before last, (when) there was as much snow, rivers were frozen 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 1717 | ||
| o 1818 | ||
| o 1919 | ||
| o 2020 | ||
| o 2121 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | šum-ma UD 07-KÁM ⸢ša ITI.BARAG⸣ | |
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | (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 | ||
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | ||
| break of about 1 line | ||
| r 88 | ⸢i?⸣-[x x x x x x] | |
| r 99 | DUMU ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | (r 9) the son [of NN ...] |
| r 1010 | la ⸢il*⸣-[x x x x]+⸢x di⸣ | (r 10) will not g[o ...] |
| r 1111 | ina pa-ni-šú-nu ⸢ma-a⸣ [x x] ⸢la⸣-a | (r 11) to them, (and) "they will not come [...] |
| r 1212 | (r 12) We shall buy the horses and bring them. The mule express of Aššur-da''inanni should alert the equipment of the Arzuhinaeans. | |
| r 1313 | ||
| r 1414 | ||
| r 1515 | ||
| r 1616 | ||
| rest uninscribed |
Adapted from Mikko Luukko, The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud (State Archives of Assyria, 19), 2012. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, 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/X190190/.