1883-01-18, 0084 unpublished unassigned ? (P452780)
Administrative Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | 1883-01-18, 0084 unpublished unassigned ? |
|---|---|
| ID | P452780 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | To the Kissikeans: |
| Obverse [1:8] o 22–o 88 | Concerning Sîn-šarra-uṣur about whom you wrote to me, if his troops had indeed been so numerous and if he had indeed been alerted because of you, why would he have fled into my presence? Now then, he is in my presence. [...] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | And as to [...] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | of the canal [...] |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | in my presence [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [......] from/with [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...] and he [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [DN]-ahu-lešir [...] |
| Reverse [3:5] r 4'4'–r 5'5' | [Wh]y are you afraid? Do your [...] as you wish. |
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 {uru}ki-sik-a.a | |
| 2 | ina UGU {1}{d}30—LUGAL—PAB | |
| 3 | ša taš-pur-a-nin-ni | |
| 4 | TA@v\dm ma-aṣ-ṣi-in A₂.KAL-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 5 | ma-aʾ-du-u₂-ni u TA@v\dm IGI-ku-nu | |
| 6 | ⸢ha-rid⸣-du-u₂-ni a-ta-a | |
| 7 | in-qu-ta ina IGI-ia an-nu-ri | |
| 8 | ina IGI-ia šu-u₂ [x x] ⸢x⸣ | |
| 9 | u₃ ina UGU ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 10 | ša₂ {id₂}har-⸢ri⸣ [x x x] | |
| 11 | ina IGI-ia a-[x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x] ⸢x TA@v\dm⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x] u šu-u₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 3' | [ina KUR—tam]-⸢tim⸣ es-ru ⸢šu⸣-[u-tu₂] | |
| 4' | ⸢at⸣-tu-⸢nu ina UGU mi₃⸣-i-ni | |
| 5' | pal-ha-ku-nu ⸢dul-la⸣-ku-nu | |
| 6' | ki-i ŠA₃-bi-ku-nu ep-ša₂ | |
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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