SAA 05, 013 (P336635)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 05, 013 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336635 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | news of [......] |
| Obverse [2:4] o 3'3'–o 4'4' | Already before [they] wro[te to me from the Palace], |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [(when) there was little] water in the river, |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [I sent out] scou[ts]; |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [they went] to the 'head' of the ci[ty], |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | (reporting): "[......] |
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] | |
| 2' | ⸢ṭe₃⸣-mu ša [x x x x] | |
| 3' | ki-i u₂-di-[ni TA@v E₂.GAL] | |
| 4' | la-a i-⸢šap⸣-[pa-ru-ni-ni] | |
| 5' | A-⸢MEŠ⸣ ina ID₂ [e-ṣu-ni] | |
| 6' | {lu₂v}da-a.a-[li a-sa-par] | |
| 7' | ina re-eš ⸢URU⸣ [it-tal-ku] | |
| 8' | [ma]-a ⸢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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