SAA 19, 015 (P393609)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 19, 015 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393609 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-šimanni. |
| Obverse [2:11] o 33–o 1111 | As to the farmers of the town of Aššur-nirka-uṣur who appealed to the king, saying: "Our sown field has been flooded" - now their harvest has come out exceedingly well. The king knows that 10 ho[mers] of seed is cu[ltivated] annually. |
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 13b.e. 13–b.e. 13b.e. 13 | an estate of 40 [homers of sown land] |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | has cultiv[ated] 10 homers of s[eed]. |
| Reverse [2:8] r 33–r 88 | [They have] utili[zed the la]nd of [th]is sust[enance field]. The k[ing] should have them watched more strictly. They say: "It is our own sown field." |
| Reverse [8:14] r 99– | I will now place harvesters in the sustenance field. If (the harvest) falls short, I shall indemnify it fully. |
| Right [0:3] r.e. 14r.e. 14–r.e. 1616 | Bet-Eriy[a], an estate of 150 homers of land, has seized an estate of 100 homers of sown field. |
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-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}aš-šur—HAL-a-ni | |
| 3 | šu-uh {⸢lu₂v⸣}ENGAR-MEŠ | |
| 4 | ša {uru}aš-šur—ni-ir-ka—PAB | |
| 5 | ša LUGAL i-hu-ru-ni | |
| 6 | ma-a {še}NUMUN-ME-ni ra-hi-iṣ | |
| 7 | u₂-ma-a BURU₁₄-šu₂-nu | |
| 8 | SIG₅ a—dan-niš | |
| 9 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ u₂-u-da | |
| 10 | ina MU.AN.NA 10 ⸢ANŠE⸣ | |
| 11 | {še}NUMUN-MEŠ ⸢ar⸣-[šu] | |
| 12 | ⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 13 | ⸢E₂ 40 [ANŠE {še}NUMUN-MEŠ] | |
| 14 | ⸢i⸣ [x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 10 ANŠE {še}[NUMUN-MEŠ] | |
| 2 | ⸢i⸣-ta-⸢ra⸣-[aš₂] | |
| 3 | [A].⸢ŠA₃⸣ ma-⸢ʾu⸣-[ut-te] | |
| 4 | [an]-⸢ni⸣-te e-⸢tak⸣-[lu] | |
| 5 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN.NUN-šu₂-nu | |
| 6 | ⸢lu⸣-da-ʾi-ni | |
| 7 | šu-nu ma-a {še}NUMUN-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 8 | ša ra-ma-ni-ni šu-u | |
| 9 | u₂-ma-a e-ṣi-di | |
| 10 | ina UGU ma-ʾu-te | |
| 11 | a-ka-ra-ar | |
| 12 | BE-ma ma-ṭi | |
| 13 | ana-ku u₂-šal-lam | |
| r.e. | ||
| 14 | ⸢E₂⸣ 01 me {še}NUMUN-⸢MEŠ⸣ [o] | |
| 15 | {uru}E₂—e-ri-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 16 | E₂ 01 me 50 A.⸢ŠA₃⸣ | |
| 17 | i-⸢ṣa⸣-bat [o] | |
Sources & licences
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