SAA 19 153 (X190153)
Administrative Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nimrud (Kalhu) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 19 153 |
|---|---|
| ID | X190153 |
| Museum no. | IM 064027 |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative Letter |
| Find spot | Nimrud (Kalhu) |
| Coordinates | 36.0992, 43.3275 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa19 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | The king's word to the go[vernor] (of Calah): |
| Obverse [1:13] o 22– | 700 bales of straw and 700 bundles of reeds, each bundle more than a donkey can carry, must be at hand in Dur-Šarruken by the 1st of Kislev (IX). Should (even) one day pass by, you will die. |
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-bat LUGAL a-na\t {lu₂v}⸢šak⸣-[ni] | |
| 2 | 07 me {tug₂m}ma-qar-rat ša\yd {še}IN.NU | |
| 3 | 07 me e-bi-is-su ša\yd {gi}⸢AMBAR-MEŠ⸣ | |
| 4 | ša\y 01-et e-bi-is-si | |
| 5 | ANŠE.NITA₂ la e-mu-qa\d-šu₂-u-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 6 | la i-mat-ta-hu-u-ni | |
| b.e. | ||
| 7 | UD 01-⸢KAM⸣ ša\yd {iti}GAN | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina {⸢uru}BAD₃⸣—MAN—GIN | |
| 2 | lu ⸢qu⸣-[ru]-⸢bu⸣ | |
| 3 | 01-en UD-⸢mu⸣ [e-te]-ti\t-⸢iq⸣ | |
| 4 | ta-⸢mu⸣-at | |
Sources & licences
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