SAA 15, 178 (P336769)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 15, 178 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336769 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......] wine [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [News of] Merodach-Baladan: [he is] in Ba[bylon]. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [......] Bit-Dakkuri is we[ll ...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [...... are] keep[ing] watch over them |
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]-ni la-⸢ap⸣-[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ka-ra-a-⸢nu⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 3' | [ṭe₃-mu ša {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—A—AŠ ina ⸢TIN⸣.[TIR{ki} šu₂-u₂] | |
| 4' | [ṭe₃-mu ša] ⸢E₂⸣—da-kur DI-[mu x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ EN.NUN-šu₂-nu i-na-[ṣu-ru] | |
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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