ABL 0497 (P237825)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0497 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237825 |
| 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 | To the king of the lands, my lord: your servant, Rašil. Good health to the king, my lord. May Marduk and Zarpanitu bless the king of the lands, my lord. |
| Obverse [5:12] o 66–o 1212 | Concerning the sketch of the bed of the Lord of heaven and earth, about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, saying: "Send it" — I have now [sent it t]o the king, my lord. The king, my lord [... i]n regard to [... wro]te to me [......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [...] gold in [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [...] will go |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [...]s ... |
| Reverse [3:6] r 44–r 66 | I have now written to the king, my lord. The king, my lord, should do as he deems best. |
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-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}TUK-ši—DINGIR | |
| 3 | lu-u₂ šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {d}AMAR.UTU u {d}zar-pa-ni-tum | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL KUR.KUR EN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | a-na UGU-hi li-i-ṭu ša₂ {giš}NA₂ | |
| 7 | ša₂ {d}EN AN-e KI.TIM ša₂ LUGAL EN-a | |
| 8 | iš-pu-ra um-ma šu-bi-la | |
| 9 | a-du-⸢u₂⸣ [a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 10 | ul-[te-bi-la-aš₂-šu₂] LUGAL EN-a | |
| 11 | ul-[x x x x a]-na UGU-hi | |
| 12 | [x x x x x iš]-pu-ra | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x] KUG.GI ina ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 2 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ il-lak | |
| 3 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ti-nu-te ši ki | |
| 4 | a-du-u₂ ana LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 5 | al-tap-ra LUGAL EN-a | |
| 6 | a-ki ša₂ i-le-ʾu-u₂ | |
| 7 | li-pu-uš | |
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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