SAA 16, 165 (P336780)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 16, 165 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336780 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [...] and diarrh[oea ...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [the ...]s and the right hand of the king [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [...] Perhap[s ...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [... of] the king, my lord [...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [... lo]tion [...] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [...] will not do [...] |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | [... the ki]ng, 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) |
|---|---|---|
| b.e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x] u ni-iš-⸢hu⸣ [x x] | |
| 2 | [x x]-⸢MEŠ⸣ u 15 LUGAL [x x x] | |
| 3 | [x x]-ni i—su-ur-⸢ri⸣ [x x x] | |
| 4 | [x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ia ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 5 | [x x mar]-hu-ṣu ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x] | |
| 6 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ la e-pa-⸢aš₂⸣ [x x] | |
| 7 | [x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ [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)
- 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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