SAA 15 208 (P313821)
Administrative Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 15 208 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313821 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative Letter |
| Find spot | Kuyunjik (Nineveh) |
| Coordinates | 36.3587, 43.1519 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | [NN], a citizen of Babylon |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | has said [as fol]lows: |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | ["Merodach-Bal]adan has said: |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | ['...] I will kill you!' |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | [... w]hat work of [NN] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [... w]ith him do! |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | [......] to Mer[odach-Baladan] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | [...... g]o! Merodach-[Baladan] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | [......] to the [...] |
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 | [ma-a {1}x x x]+⸢x⸣ DUMU—KA₂.DINGIR.RA{⸢ki⸣} DUMU—KA₂.DINGIR.RA{⸢ki⸣} | |
| 2 | [ki-i an-ni]-⸢i⸣ iq-ṭi-bi ma-a [o] | |
| 3 | {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—DUMU].⸢UŠ⸣—SUM-na iq-ṭi-bi | |
| 4 | [ma-a x x x]-ma la-du-uk-ka [o] | |
| 5 | [ma-a x x mi]-⸢i⸣-nu dul-lu ša {1}{d}[x x (x)] | |
| 6 | [x x x x is]-se-e-šu₂ e-pu-⸢uš⸣ | |
| 7 | [x x x x x x]-ni a-na {1}{d}AMAR.[UTU—A—AŠ] | |
| 8 | [x x x x x a]-lik {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—[A—AŠ] | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x]-⸢ra⸣ a-na {lu₂v}⸢EN⸣-[x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x] me [x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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