ABL 0400 (P237176)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0400 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237176 |
| 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/saa21 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | The king's word to Bel-ibni: I am well; you can be glad. |
| Obverse [5:13] o 66– | As to what you said, "He has entered the sand desert" — you walk under my aegis, do not be afraid. |
| Reverse [0:7] r 1r 1–r 77 | And concerning the bdellium and the bronze about which you wrote, send it to me; whether little or much, I want to see it. |
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-mat LUGAL | |
| 2 | a-na {1}{d}EN—ib-ni | |
| 3 | DI-mu a.a-ši | |
| 4 | ŠA₃-ba-ka | |
| 5 | lu-u ṭa-ab-ka | |
| 6 | ina UGU ša₂ taq-bu-u₂ | |
| 7 | um-ma i-na UGU | |
| 8 | E₂—pa-a-ṣi E₂—pa-a-ṣi | |
| 9 | i-te-ru-ub | |
| 10 | ina GIŠ.MI-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 11 | ta-ri-qi₂-iš | |
| 12 | la ta-pal-lah | |
| r | ||
| 1 | u₃ i-na UGU | |
| 2 | {šem}bi-dur₂-hu | |
| 3 | u₃ UD.KA.BAR | |
| 4 | ša taš-pu-ra | |
| 5 | šu-bi-la | |
| 6 | a-na pa-ni-ia | |
| 7 | mi₃-ṣi u ma-ʾa-ad | |
| 8 | a-na-ku lu-mur | |
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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