SAA 19, 221 (P393699)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 19, 221 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393699 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1'1'–o 4'4' | I said: "[...] they will set out. Dig your boats out!" But they don't obe[y]. |
| Obverse [4:8] o 5'5'– | Let the king, my lord, send him an order to dig out his boats. |
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' | mu-uk\tdp ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2' | u₂\m-nam\p-mu-⸢šu₂ x⸣+[x x] | |
| 3' | {giš}MA₂\d-MEŠ-ku-nu | |
| 4' | hu\d-uṭ-ṭa\d la\d i-ma-⸢gu⸣-[ru] | |
| 5' | LUGAL\dt be-li₂ ⸢liq-ba\t⸣-aš₂-šu₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | liš\d-pu-ra\d {giš}MA₂\d-⸢MEŠ⸣-šu₂ | |
| 2 | li\tt-ih-ṭu-ṭu | |
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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