ABL 0949 (P237268)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0949 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237268 |
| 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/saa18 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | A tablet of Umman-abba to his brother, Aplaya. Good health to my brother! [May I hea]r news of you [and] your health! |
| Obverse [5:7] o 66–o 77 | [...] Raši-il [...], and |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | send [the ...] of your father! |
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 | ṭup-pi {1}um-man-ab-ba | |
| 2 | a-na {1}A-a ŠEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 3 | lu-u₂ šul-mu a-na | |
| 4 | ŠEŠ-ia ṭe₃-en-ka | |
| 5 | [u₃] šu-lum-ka | |
| 6 | [lu-uš]-me {1}TUK-ši—DINGIR | |
| 7 | [x x x x]-ma | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x]-ia AD-ka | |
| 2' | šup-ra <$o$> | |
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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