SAA 19 194. Providing Road Stations with Horses (CTN 5 p. 142)[via saao/saa19]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, m[y] lord: your servant Nabû-belu-ka''in. The very best of he[al]th to the king, my lord! | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | (5) As to what the kin[g], my lord, wrote to me: "Harass the road stations which have your horses, and come!" | |
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | (9) The horses [...] accordingly | |
| o 1010 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ḫar-⸢pu⸣ | |
| o 1111 | [x x x x x x] ⸢TAv?⸣ | |
| rest broken away | ||
| Reverse | ||
| rr | beginning broken away | |
| r 1'1' | ||
| r 2'2' | ba-⸢ru⸣-te šú-nu bi? [x (x)] | (r 2) they are hungry, [...] was/were not given (to them) in Durtunu. |
| r 3'3' | ||
| r 4'4' | (r 4) The caravans before me are taken, the Babylonian merchants have been delayed by one stage [...]. | |
| r 5'5' | ||
| r 6'6' | ||
| r 7'7' | 01-⸢te*⸣ mar-di-⸢tú x x x x x⸣ | |
| r 8'8' | (r 8) Bel-le'i and about 90 mares of M[u]šeṣi are eating in the presence of [Ašš]ur-da''inanni. I did not see him and his son is (not) coming either. | |
| r 9'9' | ||
| r 10'10' | ||
| r 11'11' | ⸢m⸣[aš]-⸢šur⸣—KALAG-an-ni ⸢KÚ?⸣-ME | |
| Right | ||
| r.e. 12r.e. 12 | ||
| r.e. 1313 | ||
| r.e. 1414 | ||
| Edge | ||
| e. 1e. 1 | [x x] ⸢x x x nu? ni? x x ti x⸣ [x] | |
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/P393674/.