ABL 0743 (P237439)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0743 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237439 |
| 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/saa10 · 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 Ašaredu. May Nabû and Marduk [bless the king of the lands, my lord]! |
| Reverse [1:4] r 2'2'–r 4'4' | Having received [...], he stood upon a table and said: "He will die; appeal to the king." |
| Reverse [4:6] r 5'5'–r 6'6' | They eat my bread, and I ... |
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 KUR.KUR EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}a-ša₂-ri-du | |
| 3 | {[d]}⸢AG u⸣ {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | [KUR.KUR be-li₂-ia] ⸢lik⸣-[ru]-⸢bu⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 2' | ki-i im-hu-ru ina UGU | |
| 3' | {giš}BANŠUR it-ta-ziz | |
| 4' | um-ma i-ma-ta LUGAL | |
| 5' | mu-hur NINDA-HI.A-a | |
| 6' | ik-ka-lu u a-na-ku | |
| 7' | u₂-man-da | |
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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