ABL 1095 (P236963)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1095 |
|---|---|
| ID | P236963 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa17 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | Your servant Nabû-zera-iddina: I would gladly die for the king, my lord! May Anu and Ištar bless the king! Say to the king, my lord: |
| Obverse [5:7] o 66–o 77 | [When] they heard from the citizens of Ur that [...] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | [...] Merodach-Balada[n ...] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | [they] will perish [...] |
| Reverse [1:10] r 2'2'–r 10'10' | "W[hy] did you gi[ve ...] back [to] Merodach-Baladan?" The king, my lord, must not believe it! I have not given anything back to anyone. |
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 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}AG—NUMUN—SUM-na | |
| 2 | a-na di-na-an LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 3 | lul-lik {d}a-num u₃ {d}IŠ.TAR | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL ⸢be-li₂-ia₂⸣ lik-ru-bu um-⸢ma⸣-a | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia-a-[ma] | |
| 6 | a-na {lu₂}ŠEŠ.UNUG{ki}a.[a] | |
| 7 | [ki-i] iš-mu-u₂ um-ma [x] | |
| 8 | [x x {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—DUMU.UŠ—⸢SUM⸣-[na] | |
| 9 | [x x x] i-hal-li-qu [x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x]+⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | um-ma mi-⸢nam⸣-[ma x x x x] | |
| 3' | tu-tir-ra-a-ma [a-na x x] | |
| 4' | {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—DUMU.UŠ—MU ⸢ta⸣-[di-na] | |
| 5' | LUGAL be-li₂-a la i-qa-a-ap | |
| 6' | mim-ma ka-la-ma a-na | |
| 7' | mam-ma ul u₂-tir-ma | |
| 8' | ul ad-di-nu | |
| 9' | <$ʾa$> | |
| 10' | <$u₂$> | |
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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