SAA 15, 137 (P336768)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 15, 137 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336768 |
| 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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, [my lord]: your servant Na[bû-šumu-iddina]. Good heal[th to the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | I have br[oken through] the city-wall of [......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | "[......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | hors[es ...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | he op[ened ...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | he too[k ...] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | before [...] |
| Reverse [6:8] r 7'7'– | until alongside the road [...] |
| Right [0:1] r.e. 8r.e. 8–r.e. 8r.e. 8 | another to [...] |
| Right [1:2] r.e. 99–r.e. 99 | pro[duced ...] |
| Right [2:3] r.e. 1010–r.e. 1010 | The king, [my] lord, [should know it]. |
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 [be-li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}⸢PA⸣—[MU—AŠ] | |
| 3 | lu šul-⸢mu⸣ [a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | BAD₃\p ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 5 | up\d-⸢tal⸣-[li-iš x x x x] | |
| 6 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ma-a [x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | {anše}KUR.[RA x x x x] | |
| 4' | ip-ti-[ti x x x x x] | |
| 5' | i-ti\t-⸢ši⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 6' | ina pa-ni-[x x x x x] | |
| 7' | EN ina UŠ KASKAL [x x x x] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 8 | 02-u₂ a-na ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 9 | uq\d-ṭa-[rib x x x] | |
| 10 | LUGAL be-⸢li₂⸣ [lu u₂-da] | |
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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