SAA 12, 034 (P336728)
Official or display, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 12, 034 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336728 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Official or display |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa12 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:4] r 1'1'–r 4'4' | [may he forbid him to wal]k [in temple and palac]e, [and in the wrath of god and k]ing [may a] blo[odstained] weap[on await him]. May [the dogs tear apart his corpse as it lies unbu]ried. |
| Reverse [4:11] r 5'5'–r 11'11' | [Neither king] nor prince [shall alter] the wording of this t[ablet]. [By] Aššur, Adad, [Ber], the Assyrian [Enl]il and the [Assyrian] Iš[tar]: [A fut]ure [prince shall not cast aside] the wording of [this] tablet. Aššur, Adad, [Ber], the Assyrian Enlil and [the Assyrian Ištar will hear] your pra[yer]. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [qe₂-reb E₂.KUR u₃ E₂].⸢GAL i⸣-[tal-lu-ku li-za-am-me-šu₂] | |
| 3' | [i-na ug-gat DINGIR u] ⸢LUGAL⸣ ka-⸢ak⸣—[da-a-me li-kil SAG-su] | |
| 4' | {[lu₂}UŠ₂-šu₂ i-na la qi₂]-⸢bi⸣-ri li-[ba-ṣi-ru UR.KU-MEŠ] | |
| 5' | [u₂—lu-u LUGAL] u₂—lu-u NUN ša pi-i ⸢dan⸣-[ni-ti šu-a-tu u₂-ša₂-an-nu-u] | |
| 6' | [ni-iš] {⸢d⸣}aš-šur {d}IM {[d}be-er] | |
| 7' | {[d}EN].⸢LIL₂⸣ aš-šur{ki}u₂ {d}15 [aš-šur{ki}i-tu] | |
| 8' | [NUN-u₂] ⸢EGIR⸣-u₂ ša pi-i dan-ni-⸢ti⸣ [šu-a-tu la u₂-šam-sak] | |
| 9' | {[d]}aš-šur {d}IM {[d}be-er] | |
| 10' | {[d]}⸢EN⸣.LIL₂ aš-šur{ki}u₂ {d}15 aš-šur{ki}i-tu] | |
| 11' | [ik]-⸢ri⸣-bi-ka i-[šem-mu-u₂] | |
| 12' | [x x] ⸢x x x x x⸣ [x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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