SAA 16, 076 (P336779)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 16, 076 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336779 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 2'2'–b.e. 2'2' | [...] they are [...] |
| Bottom [1:3] b.e. 3'3'– | They did [... month after] month. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | [He m]oved the [...]s up to the town, but the townsmen [mo]lested him, and the king got angry. |
| Reverse [3:6] r 44–r 66 | [Inur]ta-ahu-uṣur, the chief tailor, and [PN], the nephew of Hanbî |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| b.e. | ||
| 2' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-te šu-nu | |
| 3' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ITI e-tap-šu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-te ina ŠA₃-bi URU | |
| 2 | [u₂-se]-li-ia-a u {lu₂v}URU-MEŠ-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 3 | [ih]-ta-sa-ʾu-šu LUGAL ir-tu-ʾa-⸢ba⸣ | |
| 4 | {1}{d]}⸢MAŠ⸣—PAB—PAB {lu₂v}GAL—KA.KEŠ₂ {lu₂v}GAL—KA.KEŠ₂ {lu₂v}GAL—KA.KEŠ₂ | |
| 5 | {1}x x x]+⸢x⸣ DUMU—ŠEŠ-šu₂ DUMU—ŠEŠ-šu₂ DUMU—ŠEŠ-šu₂ ša {1}ha-an-bi-i | |
| 6 | [x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x]+⸢x⸣-nu | |
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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