SAAB 02, 071 pl. 1 (P336800)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAAB 02, 071 pl. 1 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336800 |
| Museum no. | BM 079099 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) |
| Coordinates | 33.0605, 44.2552 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:17] o 1o 1–o 1717 | To the king, lord of kings, [my lord]: your servant, Aplaya, the priest of Kurba'il. Good health to the king, my lord. May Adad, Šala, and Šarrat-nakkanti |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...] I did [n]ot wr[ite/send]. |
| Reverse [2:9] r 3'3'–r 9'9' | [... the we]avers have [not] given the cloth[ing]. Perhaps [the king], m[y lord], will say: "From where did they issue them in the past?" They used to issue the work-quotas from the palace, and the we[av]ers from Arbela used to weave them. |
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 EN LUGAL-MEŠ [EN-ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}DUMU.UŠ-ia | |
| 3 | {lu₂v}SANGA ša {uru}kur-ba-il₃ | |
| 4 | lu-u DI a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | {d}IM {d}ŠA.LA | |
| 6 | {d}GAŠAN-rat—na-kan-ti | |
| 7 | DINGIR-MEŠ a-ši-bu-tu E₂.DUR₂.HE₂.NUN.NA | |
| 8 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 9 | lu-bal-li-ṭu ṭu-ub ŠA₃-bi | |
| 10 | ṭu-ub UZU-MEŠ a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 11 | li-di-nu UD-me ar₂-ku-u-te | |
| 12 | MU.AN.NA-MEŠ da₃-ra-a-te | |
| 13 | a-na LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-ia liš-ru-ku | |
| 14 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ba-si a-[x x] | |
| 15 | [x x x x x]-a u₂-sa-[x] | |
| 16 | [x x x x x] la ga-[x x] | |
| 17 | [x x x x x]-ga-ru-[x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] ⸢la⸣ aš₂-⸢pur⸣ | |
| 3' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x {lu₂}UŠ].BAR-MEŠ | |
| 4' | {tug₂}la-⸢bu⸣-[su la] i-di-nu | |
| 5' | i—su-ri [LUGAL be]-⸢li₂⸣ i-qa-bi | |
| 6' | ma-a ina la-[bi]-ri | |
| 7' | TA@v a.a-⸢ka⸣ [i]-⸢du⸣-nu | |
| 8' | EŠ₂.QAR TA@v E₂.GAL | |
| 9' | i-du-nu {lu₂v}⸢UŠ.BAR⸣-MEŠ | |
| 10' | DUMU {uru}arba-il₃ i-ma-hi-ṣu | |
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