SAA 16, 188 (P336783)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 16, 188 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336783 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the kin[g, my lord]: your servant [PN]. Good health t[o the king, my lord]! May Nabû (and) Mar[duk] bl[ess the king, my lord]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [The king, my lord, can be] glad. |
| Reverse [2:4] r 3'3'–r 4'4' | Let [them] sen[d me] whatev[er] was not detached [from ...]. |
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 | ⸢a⸣-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}x x x x] | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu ⸢a⸣-[na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.[UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 5 | lik-[ru-bu] | |
| 6 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢nu⸣-[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | lib-⸢bu ša⸣ [LUGAL EN-ia lu x x] | |
| 3' | mi₃-i-nu ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 4' | la pa-ṭu-ru-u-⸢ni⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 5' | lu-še-⸢bil⸣-[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)
- 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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