1880-07-19, 0017 unpublished unassigned ? (P451961)
Administrative Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | 1880-07-19, 0017 unpublished unassigned ? |
|---|---|
| ID | P451961 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative Letter |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa21 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | A tablet of Šamaš-šumu-ukin to the king, my brother: The best of health to my brother! May Bel, Beltiya, Nabû, Tašmetu and Nanaya bless my brother. |
| Obverse [6:15] o 77– | Sin-balassu-iqbi is here in the presence of my brother. I have heard certain things about him. May my brother detain him until I have cleared it up and sent a detailed report to my brother. |
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 ŠEŠ-ia | |
| 2 | IM {1}{d}GIŠ.NU₁₁—MU—GI.NA | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na ŠEŠ-ia | |
| 4 | a—dan-niš {d}EN {d}GAŠAN-MU | |
| 5 | {d}AG {d}taš-me-tu₂ u {d}na-na-a | |
| 6 | a-na ŠEŠ-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | {1}{d}30—TIN-su—iq-bi | |
| 8 | ha-an-na-ka ina pa-an ŠEŠ-ia | |
| 9 | di-ib-bi i-ba-aš₂-ši | |
| 10 | ina UGU-hi-šu₂ a-se-me | |
| 11 | ŠEŠ-u₂-a li-ik-liš | |
| 12 | a-du a-har-ra-ṣa-ni | |
| 13 | mi-i-nu ša₂ ši-ti-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-na ŠEŠ-ia | |
| 2 | a-šap-par-an-ni | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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