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SAA 19, 223 (P393700)

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

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Designation	SAA 19, 223
ID	P393700
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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66	To the ki[ng, my lord]: your servant [NN]. The very b[est] of heal[th to the king, my lord]! Good health t[o ...]! The house o[f the king is well].
Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77	The servants [of ...]
Obverse [7:9] o 88–o 99	aroun[d ......]

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}x x x x]
3	lu DI-⸢mu⸣ [a-na LUGAL EN-ia]
4	a—dan-niš ⸢a⸣—[dan-niš]
5	lu DI-mu ⸢a⸣-[na x x x x]
6	a-na E₂ ⸢ša⸣ [LUGAL DI-mu]
7	{lu₂v}ARAD-MEŠ [x x x]
8	ša ba-⸢ta⸣-bat-[ti o]
9	⸢x x x x⸣ [x x x x]

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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