ABL 0475 (P237235)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0475 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237235 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, my lord: your servant, [Rašil]. May Nabû and Ma[rduk] bless [the king], my lord. |
| Obverse [4:14] o 55– | Concerning Nadin-ahi and Ina-qibi-Bel, his brother, the two clergymen about whom the king, my lord, issued an order to me, saying: "Send their carpenters (here)" — I have now sent them to the king, my lord. |
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 LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}[TUK-ši—DINGIR] | |
| 3 | {d}AG u {d}⸢AMAR⸣.[UTU a-na LUGAL] | |
| 4 | EN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 5 | a-na UGU {1}SUM-na—ŠEŠ | |
| 6 | u₃ {1}ina—qi₂-bi—{d}EN PAB-šu₂ | |
| 7 | {lu₂}TU—E₂ {lu₂}TU—E₂ ki-lal-le-e | |
| 8 | ša₂ LUGAL EN-a ṭe₃-e-mu | |
| 9 | iš-kun-an-ni | |
| 10 | um-ma {lu₂}NAGAR-MEŠ-šu₂-nu | |
| 11 | šup-ra-aš₂-šu₂-nu-ti | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-du-u₂ a-na LUGAL | |
| 2 | EN-ia₂ al-tap-ra-šu₂-nu-ti | |
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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