SAA 19, 010 (P393608)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 19, 010 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393608 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Kalhu (mod. Nimrūd) |
| Coordinates | 36.1022, 43.3385 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa19 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:10] o 1o 1–o 1010 | [To] the king, [my] lord: yo[ur serva]nt Ululayu. The best of health to the kin[g], my lord! Assyria is well, the temples are well, all the king's forts are well. The king, my lord, can be glad indeed. |
| Obverse [10:21] o 1111– | I am herewith sending to the king, my lord, 20 bales from the household of the commander-in-chief, 40 (bales) from the t[reasurer], 30 (bales) from the [chi]ef cupbearer, in all 90 b[al]es of reed. I took off the water-skin raft (on which the reed was shipped) on the 3rd of Iyyar (II). |
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}{iti}KIN-a-[a] | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 4 | be-li₂-ia a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | DI-mu a-na KUR—aš-šur | |
| 6 | DI-mu a-na E₂.KUR-MEŠ | |
| 7 | DI-mu a-na HAL.ṢU-MEŠ | |
| 8 | ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ gab-⸢bu⸣ | |
| 9 | ŠA₃-bu ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 10 | a—dan-niš lu-u DUG₃.GA | |
| 11 | 20 ma-qar-ru-tu₂ | |
| 12 | ⸢ša⸣ E₂ {lu₂v}tur-⸢ta-ni⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 40 ša {⸢lu₂v}IGI⸣.[DUB] | |
| 2 | 30 ⸢ša {lu₂v}GAL⸣—KAŠ.LUL {lu₂v}GAL⸣—KAŠ.LUL | |
| 3 | ⸢PAB⸣ 90 ⸢ma⸣-[qar]-ru-tu₂ | |
| 4 | ša ku-up-⸢pe⸣-e | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 6 | u₂-se-bi-⸢la⸣ | |
| 7 | UD 03-KAM ša {iti}GUD | |
| 8 | {kuš}maš-ku-⸢ru⸣ u₂-⸢ta-li⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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