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SAA 19, 107 (P393649)

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

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DesignationSAA 19, 107
IDP393649
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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55[To the k]ing, m[y] lord: your [servant] Nabû-nammi[r. Good] health to the king, m[y] lord! May [Na]bû and Marduk bless [the king], my lord!
Obverse [5:7] o 66–o 77[As to what the king, ou]r [lord], wrote to us, [......]
Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3'[... t]hey placed [...]
Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4'[x ta]lent(s) of silver [...]
Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5'[...] upon the ci[ty ...]
Reverse [5:9] r 6'6'–[...] y[ou ...]

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}AG\t—ZALAG₂-⸢ir⸣
3[lu] DI-mu a-na LUGAL\d EN-⸢ia⸣
4{[d]}⸢AG⸣ u {d}AMAR\y.UTU
5[a-na LUGAL] EN-ia lik-ru-bu
6[ša LUGAL EN]-⸢ni\d⸣ iš-pur-an-⸢na-ši⸣-[ni]
7[x x x]+⸢x⸣-u-⸢ti⸣ [x x x]
r
1'[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x]
2'[x x x]+⸢x x x x⸣ [x x x x]
3'[x x] ⸢ik\y⸣-ta-⸢ru⸣ [x x x]
4'[x x] ⸢GU₂⸣.UN KUG.⸢UD⸣ [x x x x]
5'[x x ina] UGU {⸢uru⸣}[x x x]
6'[x x x x]+⸢x ka⸣ [x x x x]
r.e.
7[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x]
8[x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x]

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