SAA 19, 129 (P393659)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 19, 129 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393659 |
| 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 NN. Good health to the king, my lord!] |
| Obverse [3:13] o 44– | [Concerning what the king w]rote to me: "Write the names of all the citizens of Babylon who have come to my side in a letter and send it to me!" |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | Nobody has come. |
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}x x x] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | [ša LUGAL] ⸢iš⸣-pur-an-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 5 | ⸢ma⸣-a {lu₂v}DUMU-MEŠ—TIN.⸢TIR⸣{ki} {lu₂v}DUMU-MEŠ—TIN.⸢TIR⸣{ki} | |
| 6 | mar ina ir-ti-ia₂ | |
| 7 | il-li-ku-ni-ni | |
| 8 | MU-MEŠ-šu₂-nu | |
| 9 | ina ŠA₃-bi e-gir₂-ti | |
| 10 | šu-ṭur | |
| b.e. | ||
| 11 | še-bi-la | |
| r | ||
| 1 | mi-nim-mi-ni | |
| 2 | la il-li-ka | |
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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