SAA 18, 037 (P239872)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 18, 037 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239872 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [......] forces [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] the king should not [say] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] When the king [...], |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [......] saying: "The king [does] not [...] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [...... their] faces to Babylon |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [......] the king['s ...] have gone out |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [......] you will go [...]." Now |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [......] they |
| Obverse [9:11] o 10'10'–o 11'11' | [......] we |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1'1'–r 2'2' | [...... wat]ch |
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 x x]+⸢x e⸣-muq ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x]-⸢nu⸣-u₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x]-⸢ti⸣ LUGAL la ⸢i⸣-[qab-bi] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x]-nab LUGAL ki-i ⸢i-x⸣+[x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ um-ma LUGAL ul ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-a a-na TIN.TIR{ki} pa-nu-[šu₂-nu] | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x] LUGAL it-ta-ṣu-ni [o] | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ tal-lak en-na [o] | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ma šu₂-nu [o] | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ni-i-nu [o] | |
| 11' | [x x x x x x] ⸢x x x x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x x x EN].⸢NUN⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x x x x]-nu | |
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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