SAA 16, 047 (P336777)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 16, 047 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336777 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [......] the palace [...] |
| Obverse [1:3] o 2'2'– | [......] I brought [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [...] Ahu-duri to the palace personnel [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [...] slander[ed] me [be]fore the king, my [lord]. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [...] May the king [...] the fowler, |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [... let] the magnates [...] the fowler [...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [...] the king's [...] to drink [...] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [......] word [...] |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | [......] bringi[ng ...] |
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⸣ E₂.GAL [x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ha-aṣ [x x] at-ta-ṣa [x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ {1}hu—BAD₃ a-na ERIM—E₂.GAL ERIM—E₂.GAL [x x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x ina] ⸢pa⸣-an LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-ia kar-ṣi-ia ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 3 | [x x x x]-ku LUGAL {⸢lu₂v⸣}MUŠEN.DU₃ lu [x x x x] | |
| 4 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ {lu₂}GAL-MEŠ {lu₂}MUŠEN.DU₃ [x x x x] | |
| 5 | [x x x] {⸢lu₂v}x⸣+[x] LUGAL ina NAG [x x x x] | |
| 6 | [x x x x x] ⸢i-na⸣ a-⸢bu⸣-tu₂ [x x x x] | |
| 7 | [x x x x x x x x] na-⸢ṣa⸣ [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)
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