ABL 0848 (P237819)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0848 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237819 |
| 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/saa17 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Lanšê. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44–o 99 | Concerning the murderers of the Babylonians of whom the king, my lord, wrote, whenever the canal is open for the Hindareans, they speak lies! |
| Obverse [9:21] o 1010– | Now then I have, instead of the murderers, handed over to the Babylonians two Hindareans and one (subject) of Abi-hasâ. I have at the same time handed over to the Babylonians the mothers of the Rasitu tribe. |
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 be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}la-an-še-e | |
| 3 | lu-u₂ DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | aš₂-šu₂-ut {lu₂}da-i-ka-ne₂-e | |
| 5 | ša₂ DUMU—TIN.TIR{ki} DUMU—TIN.TIR{ki} | |
| 6 | ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-a iš-pur | |
| 7 | im—mat{at} im—mat{at} ID₂ a-na | |
| 8 | {lu₂}hi-in-dar-a.a | |
| 9 | pi-ta pir₂-ṣa-a-ti | |
| 10 | i-dab-bu-bu en-na | |
| 11 | a-du-u₂ 02 {lu₂}hi-in-dar | |
| 12 | 01-en ša₂ {1}AD—ha-sa-a | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-na DUMU—ba-bi-la DUMU—ba-bi-la | |
| 2 | a-na ku-<um> {lu₂}da-i-ka-ne₂-e | |
| 3 | at-ta-din | |
| 4 | u₃ AMA-MEŠ | |
| 5 | ša₂ {lu₂}ra-si-tu₂ | |
| 6 | it-ti-im-ma a-na | |
| 7 | DUMU—ba-bi-la DUMU—ba-bi-la | |
| 8 | at-ta-din | |
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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