SAA 19, 049 (P393678)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 19, 049 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393678 |
| 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: yo[ur] servant Aššur-ila'i. Good he[alth] to the king, [my] lord! |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44–o 99 | As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Arrest the caravans! Until [... have ente]red, [nobody] shall cr[oss] the river!" |
| Reverse [1:7] r 2'2'–r 7'7' | The ...s are coming to meet the king, my lord. Should I let them go to cross the river or detain them? |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | Let the king, my lord, write me what (his) orders are. |
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 EN-a | |
| 2 | ARAD-⸢ka⸣ {1}aš-šur—DINGIR-a.a | |
| 3 | lu ⸢DI⸣-[mu] ⸢a⸣-na ⸢LUGAL EN⸣-[a] | |
| 4 | ⸢ša LUGAL⸣ EN iš-⸢pur⸣-a-ni | |
| 5 | ⸢ma⸣-a ⸢KASKAL⸣-ME-ni | |
| 6 | ṣa-⸢bat⸣ ⸢ma-a⸣ a-di | |
| 7 | [x x x]-⸢bu⸣-ni-ni | |
| 8 | [me-me-ni] ⸢ID₂ la⸣ e-⸢bir⸣ | |
| 9 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x]+⸢x MEŠ⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2' | ⸢x x⸣-ME-ni [o] | |
| 3' | ina ir-ti LUGAL | |
| 4' | EN-a DU-ku-ni | |
| 5' | lu-ra-me-šu₂-nu-u | |
| 6' | ID₂ le-bir-ne₂-e | |
| 7' | u₂-la-a lak-la-šu₂-nu | |
| 8' | mi₃-nu ša₂ ṭe₃-mu-ni | |
| 9' | LUGAL EN liš-pu-ra | |
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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