SAA 19, 019 (P393679)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 19, 019 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393679 |
| 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 k]in[g, my lord: yo]ur [servant] Aššur-ma[tka-tera. Good] health to the king, [my lo]rd! |
| Obverse [3:16] o 44– | The land of the ki[ng] is well; the royal sustenance fields have been harvested. The exchange rate is extremely favourable in the land: one homer of barley goes for one mina of copper in Nineveh, one homer and 5 seahs (go for one mina of copper) in Halahhu, two homers (go for one mina of copper) in the steppe. 40 minas of wool (go for) one mina of co[pper ......]. |
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-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ {1}aš-⸢šur—KUR⸣-[ka—GUR-ra] | |
| 3 | [lu] DI-mu a-na MAN ⸢EN⸣-[ia] | |
| 4 | DI-mu a-na KUR ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 5 | ma-ʾu-ta-a-⸢ti⸣ | |
| 6 | ša LUGAL ka-nu-ša₂ | |
| 7 | ma-hi-ru i-na KUR | |
| 8 | SIG₅-iq a—dan-niš | |
| 9 | 01 ANŠE {še}PAD-MEŠ | |
| 10 | ša 01 MA.NA URUDU-MEŠ | |
| 11 | ina {uru}ni-nu-a tal-lak | |
| 12 | 01 ANŠE 5(ban₂) ina {kur}ha-lah₂-hi | |
| 13 | 02 ANŠE ina {kur}mu-da-bi-ri | |
| 14 | 40 MA.NA SIG₂-MEŠ [o] | |
| 15 | ⸢ša⸣ 01 MA.NA ⸢URUDU⸣-[MEŠ] | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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