SAA 17, 207 (P239973)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 17, 207 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239973 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | Your [servant NN: I would gladly die] for [the king, my lord! Say to the king, my lord]: |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | to [......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | soldiers [......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | to [......] |
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 | ARAD-[ka {1}x x x x x] | |
| 2 | a-⸢na⸣ [di-na-an x x x] | |
| 3 | i-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 4 | a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 5 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 6 | a-[x x x x x x] | |
| 7 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 8 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ERIM-MEŠ [x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | a-na ⸢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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