ABL 1172 (P237663)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1172 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237663 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [Order of the king to NN]. [I am] well, you may be content. |
| Obverse [5:16] o 66– | Concerning what you wrote, saying: "In the month of Iyyar (II) Enlil will go out into the fort of [...]" — let him go out safely. Let [your] guard be st[rong]. And as soon as [he has entered], writ[e to me] about [Enlil's] well-being. |
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}x x x x] | |
| 3 | DI-mu [a-a-ši] | |
| 4 | ŠA₃-ba-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 5 | lu-u ṭa-ab-ka | |
| 6 | ina UGU ša₂ taš-pu-ra | |
| 7 | um-ma ina {iti}GUD | |
| 8 | {d}EN.LIL₂ ina ka-a-di | |
| 9 | [x]+⸢x⸣ uṣ-ṣa | |
| 10 | ina DI-me | |
| 11 | lu-uṣ-ṣi | |
| r | ||
| 1 | EN.NUN-[ka] | |
| 2 | lu-u ⸢dan⸣-[na-at] | |
| 3 | u₃ aš₂-ša₂ [i-ru-bu] | |
| 4 | DI-mu ša₂ {d}[EN.LIL₂] | |
| 5 | ta-šap-⸢pa⸣-[ra] | |
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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