SAA 16, 172 (P336781)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 16, 172 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336781 |
| 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 [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [... wro]te to me |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...] ... the ch[ief ...] |
| Reverse [2:4] r 3'3'–r 4'4' | [wh]y did[n't] he explain [...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [...] they have brought |
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⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 3' | [x x x x]-⸢pur⸣-an-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x]-ni {lu₂v}⸢GAL⸣—[x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x a]-⸢ta⸣-a | |
| 4' | [x x x x la] ⸢u₂⸣-šah-kim [o] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ na-ṣu-u-ni | |
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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