SAA 21 079. Sending Horses for Review (ABL 0302)[via saao/saa21]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) The king's word to Nabû-šar-ahhešu: I am well; you can be glad. | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | (6) Concerning the horses for the review about which you wrote, as a matter of course, we send for them at the new moon of the month of Adar (XII). Do come! | |
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | (11) When the crippled were a hindrance, we sent them earlier, in Shebat (XI), for in the event of a severe cold, or even in (any) cold, they would die of cold. | |
| o 1212 | ||
| o 1313 | ||
| o 1414 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | (r 4) Let us send them in mid-Shebat, so they can keep dragging them and coming for the (whole) month of Adar; then they will reach us within Nisan (I). | |
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | ||
| r 99 |
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/P393750/.