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SAA 19, 054 (P393624)

Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationSAA 19, 054
IDP393624
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreLetter
Find spotKalhu (mod. Nimrūd)
Coordinates36.1022, 43.3385

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa19 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22[To the king, my lord: your servant Inurta-ila'i].
Obverse [2:17] o 33–On the 30th of Adar (XII), the interpreter [NN] and the emissaries of Que – with them 1 wooden carriage, 3 mules and 3 men - crossed the river and spent the night in Kar-Shalmaneser. They [are coming] to the Palace to greet (the king).

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
o
1[a-na LUGAL EN-ia]
2[ARAD-ka {1}{d}MAŠ—DINGIR-a.a]
3{1}⸢x⸣+[x x x x]+⸢x⸣
4{⸢lu₂v}tur-gu⸣-ma-ni
5{lu₂v}MAH-MEŠ-ni
6{kur}qu-a.a
701 {giš}i-pi-nu-tu₂
803 {anše}⸢ku⸣-din
903 {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ
r
1⸢i⸣-si-šu₂-nu
2ina {iti}ŠE UD 30-KAM₂
3ID₂ e-tab-ru-ni
4ina {uru}kar—{1}{d}DI-ma-nu—MAŠ
5be₂-eʾ-du
6a-na DI-mu
7ina E₂.GAL
8[DU]-⸢u₂-ni⸣

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