SAA 18, 039 (P336788)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 18, 039 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336788 |
| 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/saa18 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | who from [......] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | Šuma-iddin [......] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | Ummi-da[... who (f.)] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | ran away [......] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | led him away [......] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | the chief [......] |
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 1b.e. 1–b.e. 1b.e. 1 | [... in]to the presence of the king [...] |
| Bottom [1:2] b.e. 22–b.e. 22 | [...] my mouth [...] |
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 na x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ša ul-⸢tu⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | {1}MU—SUM-na [x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | {mi₂}AMA—da-[x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | tah-li-⸢qa⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 6' | i-bu-ku-šu₂ [x x x x x x] | |
| 7' | {⸢lu₂⸣}GAL—⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x a]-na pa-an LUGAL [x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ pi-ia [x 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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