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SAA 19, 090 (P393705)

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

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DesignationSAA 19, 090
IDP393705
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 [1:4] o 2'2'–o 4'4'saying: "You [and those] of [your] litiga[nt] should be here.
Obverse [4:7] o 5'5'–o 7'7'We are here and all my ...[...]s are also here.
Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8'They are but a few [...]s.
Obverse [8:11] o 9'9'–o 11'11'[Those of] the chief judge [c]ame, [sa]yi[ng]: "[... h]er[e ...]
Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1'[...] not [...]
Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2'[...] goes with them.
Reverse [2:5] r 3'3'–r 5'5'I will send my messengers with them as soon as they take the fields.

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'[x]+⸢x x⸣+[x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x]
2'⸢ma⸣-a ha-na\t-⸢kam⸣-[ma]
3'⸢lu⸣-u at-tu-nu [x x]
4'⸢ša⸣ EN—ṣi-⸢il\y⸣-[ti EN—ṣi-⸢il\y⸣-[ti x]
5'a-⸢ni⸣-nu ⸢an⸣-na\y-kam-ma ⸢a-ni⸣-nu
6'⸢x x⸣ [x]+⸢x⸣-ia gab-bu
7'⸢an⸣-na-ka šu₂-nu
8'[x]+⸢x⸣-ma\t-MEŠ ⸢e⸣-ṣu-te-ma ⸢šu⸣-nu
9'[ša] {⸢lu₂v⸣}sar\y-ti-ni
10'[it]-tal\d-ku-⸢u₂-ni ma⸣-[a]
11'[x] ⸢an-na-ka⸣ [x x x]
r
1'[x x] ⸢la i⸣-[x x x]
2'[x] i-si-šu₂-nu ⸢il\d-lak⸣
3'{⸢lu₂v}A—KIN⸣-te-e-a {⸢lu₂v}A—KIN⸣-te-e-a
4'i-si-šu₂-nu a-šap-par
5'a-di A.ŠA₃-MEŠ\m i-na\t-šu₂-⸢ni\d-ni⸣

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