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SAA 19, 187 (P393672)

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

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DesignationSAA 19, 187
IDP393672
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 [0:6] o 1'1'–Those who [..., ... i]n Šubr[ia but] those who [..., will] not [...] in the land of the ki[ng, my lord].
Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1The chief cupb[earer ...]
Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22with the troops [of ...]
Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33I and Nashur-Be[l ...]
Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44with the troops o[f ...]
Reverse [4:6] r 55–r 66we were unite[d] with one anoth[er ...]
Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77opposite him [...]
Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88we shall do [...]

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'⸢ša\dm u₂⸣-[x x x x x x]
2'⸢ina⸣ {kurd}šub\d-⸢ri⸣-[a x x x x]
3'⸢ša⸣ u₂-[x x x x x x]
4'ina KUR\d ša\dm ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-li₂-ia]
5'la-⸢a⸣ [x x x x x x]
r
1{lu₂}GAL—⸢KAŠ⸣.[LUL {lu₂}GAL—⸢KAŠ⸣.[LUL x x x x x x]
2TA@v\m {lu₂vy}e-mu-⸢qi⸣ [x x x x]
3a-na-ku {1}NIGIN\t—⸢EN⸣ [x x x x]
4TA@v\m e-mu-qi\t ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x]
5i-sa-ha-⸢ʾi⸣-[iš i-sa-ha-⸢ʾi⸣-[iš x x x x]
6nu-sa-ta-me-eh [x x x x]
7ina pu\td-tu\d-⸢šu⸣ [x x x x x]
8⸢ne₂-pu\t-uš⸣ [x x x x x x]

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