SAA 18, 166 (P239799)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 18, 166 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239799 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa18 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [...] the king, my lord, [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [I]f in the presence of [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [... the ki]ng of Babylon [......] |
| Obverse [4:6] o 5'5'–o 6'6' | [... the]re is not [...] |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | [x x x]+⸢x-lah₃⸣ lu-[x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x] LUGAL be-li₂-ia ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [ki]-⸢i⸣ i-na pa-an ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ TIN.TIR{ki} [x x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x] ⸢ia⸣-aʾ-nu ⸢u₃⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x]+⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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