SAA 16 088. Donkey Trade at Nineveh (CT 53 151)[via saao/saa16]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) To the ki[ng], my [lor]d: your servant Nabû-[ze]ru-uṣur, the scribe of the palace supervisor. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord. | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | ||
o 44 | ||
o 55 | ||
o 66 | ||
o 77 | (7) The herders of donkey mares used to stand in front of the palace, at the entrance, selling covered donkeys. | |
o 88 | ||
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | (10) Now they refuse to stand (there), saying: "The governor told us in front of Nineveh, 'Should I (henceforth) see you in the palace, I shall crush your skulls.' A bodyguard should come to us and take us (there). Otherwise we shall not go (there)." | |
o 1111 | ||
o 1212 | ||
o 1313 | ||
o 1414 | ú-mar-ra-qa ma-a LÚv.qur-ZAG | |
o 1515 | ||
o 1616 | ||
o 1717 | ||
o 1818 | (18) The earli[er] donkeys which were in their charge [...] | |
o 1919 | ⸢ša⸣ ina pa-ni-šú-nu [x x x] | |
Bottom | ||
b.e. 20b.e. 20 | ⸢x⸣ mu ub-ta-[x x x x] | |
b.e. 2121 | [x x x] ⸢ik⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
Reverse | ||
rr | beginning broken away | |
r 1'1' | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ḪAR | |
r 2'2' | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
r 3'3' | [x x x x x x x x] zu | |
r 4'4' | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
r 5'5' | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-šú-nu | |
r 6'6' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ta-za-za | |
r 7'7' | [x x x x x x] la e-mu-qa-a.a | |
r 8'8' | ||
rest uninscribed |
Adapted from Mikko Luukko and Greta Van Buylaere, The Political Correspondence of Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 16), 2002. 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/P313566/.