SAA 17, 138 (P239878)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 17, 138 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239878 |
| 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/saa17 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [Tablet of ...]eššir [to the king], his lord. [Say t]o the king, my lord: |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | [Concerning the ...] of Nabû-zera-iddina [... about which the ki]ng wrote, |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [......] I wrote |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [......] as |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......] gave ... |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...] Merodach-Baladan |
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 | [IM {1}x x x]+⸢x⸣-eš-šir₃ | |
| 2 | [a-na LUGAL] be-li₂-šu₂ | |
| 3 | [um-ma-a a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂-a-ma | |
| 4 | [ina UGU x x]+⸢x⸣ ka ša₂ {1}{d}AG—NUMUN—MU | |
| 5 | [x x x ša₂] ⸢LUGAL⸣ iš-pu-ra | |
| 6 | [x x x x x] ⸢aš₂⸣-pu-ra | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-ki | |
| 2' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-a id-din hu | |
| 3' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ {d}AMAR.UTU—A—MU | |
| 4' | [x x x x] ⸢x x-mu⸣-u | |
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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