SAA 19, 051 (P393680)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 19, 051 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393680 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | [T]o the k[i]ng, my lord: your [serva]nt Aššur-šitt[u-u]ṣur. |
| Obverse [2:12] o 33–o 1212 | Surely [the k]ing, my lord, (is planning) to send me pack animals but I am not able to take care of the pack animals. [Al]l the available food and corn is (for) the [pe]ople the king gave me; [h]e who lies to the king will die. |
| Obverse [12:20] o 1313– | I have w[r]itten down the entire yie[l]d of the threshing-floor and I have also wr[it]ten the envelope and I have (now) sent the scribe Aplaya (to the king) [in ch]arge of Bel-bunaya. |
| Reverse [3:7] r 44–r 77 | [(Perhaps) the king], my [l]ord, will say: "[Wh]y have you neglected to wri[t]e me?" (That is why) [I am (now) wri]ting [i]n detail. |
| Reverse [7:12] r 88–r 1212 | The king, my lord, [ma]y do [as] he deems best but I am not able to take care of the pack animals. |
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-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ⸢ARAD⸣-ka {1}aš-⸢šur⸣—šit-⸢ti—PAB⸣ | |
| 3 | ⸢pi⸣-iq-⸢ta-te⸣ | |
| 4 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ a-ṣa-pu | |
| 5 | u₂-še-ba-⸢la⸣ | |
| 6 | la ⸢mu⸣-qa-a.a | |
| 7 | a-ṣa-⸢pu⸣ la a-ha-ṣi-ni | |
| 8 | ⸢UN⸣-MEŠ <ša> LUGAL i-⸢di⸣-na-ni | |
| 9 | ⸢mar⸣ a-ka-li-šu₂-nu | |
| 10 | ⸢mar⸣ {še}NUMUN-šu₂-nu i-ba-ši | |
| 11 | ⸢ša⸣ a-na LUGAL i-sa-lu-ni | |
| 12 | i-mu-ta | |
| 13 | te-⸢lit⸣ ad-ri ga-bi-šu₂-ma | |
| 14 | ⸢a-sa⸣-ṭa-ra | |
| b.e. | ||
| 15 | ⸢e-rim⸣-tu₂ a-⸢sa-ṭa-ra⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {1}A⸣-a.a {lu₂v}A.BA | |
| 2 | [ina] ⸢ŠU⸣.2 {1}EN—DU₃-a-a | |
| 3 | ⸢u₂⸣-se-bi-la | |
| 4 | [LUGAL] ⸢be⸣-li₂ i-qa-bi | |
| 5 | [ma a]-⸢ta⸣-a ta-⸢ši⸣-ṭi | |
| 6 | [a-ta]-⸢a⸣ la taš-⸢pu-ra⸣ | |
| 7 | [šid]-di ar₂-ki | |
| 8 | [a-sap]-ra LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 9 | [ki-i] ⸢ša⸣ e-pa-šu₂-ni | |
| 10 | ⸢le⸣-pu-šu | |
| 11 | ⸢a⸣-ṣa-pu la mu-qa-a.a | |
| 12 | la a-ha-ṣi-ni | |
Sources & licences
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