SAA 18, 154 (P239969)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 18, 154 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239969 |
| 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' | [...] military duty [...]. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 3'3'–o 4'4' | As soon as I [hear] the news, you will se[e] my messeng[er]. |
| Obverse [4:11] o 5'5'– | My lord should pitch [ca]mp in two places, a[nd] they [should] cross (the river) [at] Opis and at Dur-[Šarrukku]. Let the Ar[abs] indicate (the places) to h[i]m, and let him appo[int ......] |
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 x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x] hu-ra-du ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x]+⸢x-a⸣ a-di ṭe₃-⸢e-mu a⸣-[šem-mu-u₂] | |
| 4' | {[lu₂]}⸢DUMU⸣—šip-ri-ia {[lu₂]}⸢DUMU⸣—šip-ri-ia tam-⸢ma⸣-[ra] | |
| 5' | [ma]-⸢dak⸣-tu a-na 02-šu₂ be-li₂ lid-di-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 6' | [ina] {⸢uru⸣}u₂-⸢pi⸣-ia u₃ ina {uru}BAD₃—[LUGAL—GIN] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 7' | ⸢li⸣-bi-ru-<<ni>>-nim-ma {lu₂}ar-[a-bi] | |
| 8' | ⸢liq⸣-bu-niš-⸢šum-ma⸣ lip-⸢qid⸣ [o] | |
| 9' | [x x]+⸢x x⸣ [x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ti ⸢ri⸣ [x x] | |
| 3' | [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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