SAA 19, 164 (P393662)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 19, 164 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393662 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-nirka-da''in. Good health to the king, my lord! May Aššur (and) Mullissu bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "A [ca]ravan of 1,000 has come up; |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | "[......]. Perhaps |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | [......] I have crossed [the rive]r |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | [......] two days |
| Obverse [9:11] o 1010–o 1111 | [......] orchards |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [......] the messenger |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [......] of the villages |
| Reverse [4:7] r 5'5'–r 7'7' | all the [availab]le riding horses and every single Aramean – I have appointed the guards from the town of Adad as far as the town of Uqimutaya. |
| Reverse [7:12] r 8'8'– | I am returning, and (after) I have cro[sse]d (the Euphrates), per[haps the g]ods of the king will grant me that [I c]ollect all the harvest there is. |
| Right [0:3] r.e. 12r.e. 12– | [As for] the Suhaean, right now he [is performing] his work [...... in the town of Uq]imutaya. |
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\t LUGAL\d EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}aš-šur\y—GIŠ-ka—KALAG-in | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na\y LUGAL\d EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | aš-šur\y {d}NIN.LIL₂ a-na LUGAL\d EN-ia₂ | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu ša\p LUGAL\d be-li₂ iš-pur-ni\d | |
| 6 | ma-a 01 lim {lu₂vy}⸢KASKAL⸣ te-te-⸢li⸣-a | |
| 7 | [x x x x x] ma-a i—su\t-ri\d | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ e\d-te-bir | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ 02 UD-MEŠ\m | |
| 10 | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x {giš⸣}SAR\p-MEŠ | |
| 11 | [x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ma | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x] {⸢lu₂vy⸣}A—⸢KIN⸣-ma {⸢lu₂vy⸣}A—⸢KIN⸣-ma | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x] ša ka-⸢par-MEŠ\m⸣ | |
| 5' | {⸢anšed}pet⸣-hal-MEŠ ⸢mar⸣ i-ba-šu₂\d-ni\d | |
| 6' | {lu₂vy}a-ru-mu mar ⸢šu⸣-tu₂-ni\d TA@v\m ŠA₃ {uru}{d}IM | |
| 7' | a-di {uru}ša₂—u₂\m-qi\ym-mu-ta-a.a EN.NUN\m-MEŠ\m | |
| 8' | ap-⸢ti\t-qi⸣-di a-⸢na⸣-ku a-sa-hu\d-ru\d | |
| 9' | e-⸢te-bir⸣ u ⸢BURU₁₄⸣ mar i-ba-šu₂-ni\t | |
| 10' | ⸢i⸣-[su-ri] ⸢DINGIR⸣-MEŠ-ni ⸢ša LUGAL⸣ SUM\p-nu-⸢ni⸣-ni | |
| 11' | [x x x u₂]-kan-na-aš₂ | |
| r.e. | ||
| 12 | [TA@v\m UGU] {⸢kur⸣}su\t-ha-a.a | |
| 13 | an-nu-rag dul₆\y-lu-šu₂ | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [e-pa-aš₂ x x x x ina {uru}ša₂—u₂]-⸢qi⸣-mu-ta-a.⸢a⸣ | |
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