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SAA 19, 032 (P393693)

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

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DesignationSAA 19, 032
IDP393693
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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33[T]o the king, [my lo]rd: your [ser]vant Qurd[i-Aššur]. Good health to the kin[g, my lord]!
Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66Concerning what the king wrote [to me]: "Why [did] the men [...] like [this]?"
Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77That the men [......]

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[a]-na LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia]
2⸢ARAD⸣-ka {1}qur-⸢di⸣—[aš-šur]
3lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL [EN-ia]
4ša LUGAL iš-pur-[an-ni]
5⸢ma⸣-a a-ta-a ki-⸢i⸣ [x x x]
6{⸢lu₂⸣}ERIM-MEŠ [x x x x x]
7ša ERIM-MEŠ [x x x x x]

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