SAA 16, 052 (P336778)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 16, 052 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336778 |
| 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 [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | May Bel and Beltia, Nabû (and) Tašmetu, Ninurta and Gula, Nergal (and) Laṣ, these great gods, bless you, O Nabû-[...]! May they guard you, k[eep you in good health, and give you] happiness (and) physical well-being! [May they appoint] a guardian of health and vigour (to be) with yo[u]. Whatever you have [prayed] to these gods for, may they very, very quickly bes[tow it upon you]. |
| Obverse [8:12] o 99– | What else? The word of [my lord is respected] before his lords. |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | [I am] now [writing] to my lord, (as) from the first day on their little ones in Calah cannot go to school without funerary offering(s). May my lord keep his servants al[ive] (with) the stored grain of Sivan (III), until a new barley ration falls to my share. |
| Reverse [5:7] r 66–r 77 | What else? I prayed to Nabû, and he appointed me to my lord's service. Nabû will intercede for me before my lord. |
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 | {[d]}EN u₃ {d}GAŠAN-ia {d}AG {d}taš-me-tum | |
| 2 | {[d]}⸢MAŠ⸣ u₃ {d}gu-la {d}U.GUR {d}la-⸢aṣ⸣ [o] | |
| 3 | DINGIR-MEŠ an-nu-te GAL-MEŠ a-na {1}{d}AG—[x x x] | |
| 4 | lik-ru-bu-ka li-ṣur-u₂-ka ⸢lu⸣-[šal-li-mu-ka] | |
| 5 | ṭu-ub lib{ib}bi ṭu-ub UZU-MEŠ [lid-di-nu-ni-ka] | |
| 6 | ma-ṣar šul-me ba-la-ṭi is-si-⸢ka⸣ [lip-qi-du] | |
| 7 | am—mar ša a-na DINGIR-MEŠ an-nu-te ⸢ta⸣-[hur-u-ni] | |
| 8 | a—dan-niš a—dan-niš ha-an-ṭiš liš-[ru-ku-ka] | |
| 9 | a-li-ma mi-i-nu ša ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 10 | ina IGI EN-MEŠ-šu₂ a-bat-su [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | an-nu-rig a-na be-li₈-ia [as-sap-ra] | |
| 2 | QAL₃-MEŠ-šu₂-nu ina {uru}kal-ha TA@v ŠA₃ UD 01-KAM₂-⸢ma⸣ [o] | |
| 3 | ša la ki-is-pi ina E₂—ṭup-pi E₂—ṭup-pi la il-lu-[ku] | |
| 4 | tab-ku ša {iti}SIG₄ be-li₈ ARAD-MEŠ-šu₂ lu-bal-⸢liṭ⸣ | |
| 5 | a-di E₂ {še}PAD-MEŠ GIBIL-tu ta-ma-qu-ta-an-[ni] | |
| 6 | a-li-ma mi-i-nu a-na {d}AG at-ta-har | |
| 7 | ina IGI be-li₈-ia ip-taq-da-an-ni | |
| 8 | {d}AG ab-bu-ti ina IGI be-li₈-ia₂ i-ṣa-bat | |
Sources & licences
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