SAAS 2 A05 (X000005)
Eponym List, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAAS 2 A05 |
|---|---|
| ID | X000005 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Eponym List |
| Find spot | Kuyunjik (Nineveh) |
| Coordinates | 36.3587, 43.1519 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saas2 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | They shall cast him into a well with no exit. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 2o 2–o 2o 2 | If he drifts back and forth through the reed screen, |
| Obverse [4:5] o 3o 3–o 3o 3 | they shall extinguish him wherever he goes. |
| Obverse [6:7] o 4o 4–o 4o 4 | If he slips through the knots of the reed screen, |
| Obverse [8:9] o 5o 5–o 5o 5 | they shall remove him from the house |
| Obverse [10:11] o 6o 6–o 6o 6 | and turn him into nothingness. |
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 i | ||
| 1 | {m}IGI.DUB—A—E₂.⸢ŠAR₂.RA⸣ MAN | |
| 2 | {m}{d}PA—KALAG-in-⸢an-ni⸣ | |
| 3 | {m}EN—{uru}KASKAL—EN—PAB | |
| 4 | {m}{d}PA—KAR-an-ni | |
| 5 | {m}30—tak-lak | |
| 6 | {m}10—⸢EN⸣—GIN | |
| 7 | {m}⸢EN⸣—[IGI.LAL-an-ni] | |
| o ii | ||
| 1 | {m}{d}MAŠ—DINGIR-a.a | |
| 2 | {m}{d}PA—LAL-iṣ | |
| 3 | {m}aš-šur—GIŠ-ka—KALAG-in | |
| 4 | {m}MAN—GIN MAN | |
| 5 | {m}aš-šur—KUR—⸢ka—pah-hir⸣ | |
| 6 | {[m]}DUG₃—IM—aš-šur | |
| 7 | {[m]}⸢DUG₃⸣—GIŠ.MI—E₂.ŠAR₂.⸢RA⸣ | |
| 8 | {[m]}⸢tak⸣-lak—EN | |
| 9 | {[m]}15—BAD₃⸣ | |
| 10 | {[m}aš]-⸢šur—ba⸣-[ni] | |
| r iii | ||
| 1′ | {[m]}EN—⸢IGI.LAL⸣-a-[ni] | |
| 2′ | {m}{d}PA—GIN—PAB | |
| 3′ | {m}gi-hi-il₃-⸢li⸣ | |
| 4′ | {m}SUM—PAB-MEŠ | |
| 5′ | {m}{d}30—PAB-MEŠ—SU MAN | |
| 6′ | {m}EN—⸢IGI⸣.LAL-an-ni | |
| 7 | {m}aš-⸢šur—KALAG⸣-in-an-ni | |
| 8′ | {m}⸢man⸣-zar₄-⸢ne₂-e⸣ | |
| 9′ | {m}man-nu—⸢ki⸣-i—10 | |
| 10′ | {[m]}{d}PA—MAN—PAB | |
Sources & licences
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