SAA 19, 036 (P393616)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 19, 036 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393616 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king], my [lord: your servant In]urta-belu-uṣur. [Good health] to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | [Concerni]ng what the king, my lord, [wrote] to me: "20,000 [homers of barley] have been imposed on you - [wh]en will you raise them?" |
| Obverse [7:11] o 88–o 1111 | I have raised [x thousand] 966 homers [of barley] |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | [I shall rai]se the first [...s]. |
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]-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}{d]}⸢MAŠ⸣—EN—PAB | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu] ⸢a⸣-na\t LUGAL\d EN-ia | |
| 4 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ ša\md LUGAL\d be-li₂\d | |
| 5 | [iš-pur]-a-ni\d ma-a 20 lim | |
| 6 | [ANŠE {še}PAD]-⸢MEŠ⸣ ina UGU-hi-ka | |
| 7 | [ma-a] ⸢im⸣-ma-te ⸢im⸣-ma-te ta\d-ma-ta-ha | |
| 8 | [x-lim]-9-me-66 ANŠE | |
| 9 | {[še}PAD-MEŠ] am-⸢ta\d-at⸣-ha | |
| 10 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ di ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 11 | [x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x] pa-ni-⸢u-te⸣ | |
| 3' | [a-ma]-⸢ta⸣-ha | |
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)
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