SAA 10, 063 (P336679)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 10, 063 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336679 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, [our] lo[rd: your servants Bal[asî] and Bamaya. Good he[alth] to the king, our lord! May Nabû and M[arduk] bl[ess] the king, our lord! |
| Obverse [5:7] o 66–o 77 | The moon and sun appeared together on the 14th day. |
| Obverse [7:15] o 88–o 1515 | Before we saw the king, our lord's letter, we kept watch, wrote [a report], and gave it to [...]. He did not [......] mouth [.....] we sei[z]ed [...]. |
| Obverse [15:22] o 1616– | Now then we shall watch the appearance (of the moon) in Tebet (X) and write to the king, our lord. |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | The bodyguard brought the letter on the 19th of Kislev (IX). |
| Reverse [4:8] r 55–r 88 | If the Pleiades flare up and go before Venus, in the morning [...] the city will be encircled. (As) planet Pleiades is Mars. |
| Reverse [8:15] r 99–r 1515 | We have finished writing the (tablet) breaking the good news. Maybe the king, our lord, has something left to say; (if so) we shall expand it by appending a second tablet. |
| Reverse [15:16] r 1616–r 1616 | What are the written instructions of the king, our lord, to us? |
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 | a-⸢na⸣ LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ni] | |
| 2 | ARAD-[MEŠ]-ka {1}ba-⸢la⸣-[si-i] | |
| 3 | {1}ba-am-ma-a.a lu-u ⸢DI⸣-[mu] | |
| 4 | a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ni {d}AG {⸢d⸣}[AMAR.UTU] | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ni ⸢lik⸣-[ru-bu] | |
| 6 | ⸢UD⸣ 14-KAM₂ {d}30 u {d}UTU | |
| 7 | ⸢is-si a⸣-ha-mi₃-iš | |
| 8 | ⸢it-ta-am-ru⸣ ki-i ⸢u₂⸣-di-ni | |
| 9 | e-gir₂-tu₂ ša LUGAL EN-ni | |
| 10 | la ne₂-[mar]-u-ni | |
| 11 | ⸢ma⸣-[ṣar]-⸢tu₂⸣ ni-⸢ta⸣-ṣar | |
| 12 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x]+⸢x⸣ ni-sa-ṭar | |
| 13 | a-na [x x x] ni-ti-din | |
| 14 | la i-⸢x⸣+[x] ⸢x har⸣ | |
| 15 | pi-i ⸢x x x x⸣ | |
| 16 | nu-ṣa-⸢bit⸣ an-nu-⸢rig⸣ | |
| 17 | ta-mar-tu₂ ša {iti}AB | |
| b.e. | ||
| 18 | ni-na-ṣar | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-na LUGAL EN-ni | |
| 2 | ni-šap-pa-ra | |
| 3 | UD 19-KAM₂ ša {iti}GAN | |
| 4 | {lu₂}qur-ZAG e-gir₂-tu₂ na-ṣa | |
| 5 | 1 {mul}MUL SUR-ma | |
| 6 | a-na pa-an {mul}dil-bat GUB | |
| 7 | ina šer₃-ti ni-x URU NIGIN-ma | |
| 8 | UDU.IDIM {mul}MUL {d}ṣal-bat-a-nu | |
| 9 | mu-pa-si-ru ni-sa-ṭar | |
| 10 | nu-ug-da-mir | |
| 11 | is—su-ur-ri da-ba-bu | |
| 12 | ša LUGAL EN-ni | |
| 13 | i-ba-aš₂-ši re-e-hu | |
| 14 | ṭup\m-pu ša-ni-u₂ | |
| 15 | ni-ṭa-ap-pi ni-ša₂-kan | |
| 16 | mi₃-i-nu ša LUGAL EN-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 17 | i-šap-par-an-na-⸢ši⸣-[ni] | |
Sources & licences
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