ABL 0255 (P237826)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0255 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237826 |
| 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! |
| Obverse [4:14] o 55– | The tablet which the king is using is [defe]ctive and not whole. Now then I have written and fetched from Babylon an ancient tablet made by King Hammurapi and an inscription from before King Hammurapi. |
| Bottom [0:3] b.e. 14b.e. 14– | [Let] the king [...] the ritual according to [...] |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | From A[šaredu] the Youn[ger]. |
| Reverse [3:6] r 4'4'– | Long [since] I [......]. They should believe me. |
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-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}a]-ša₂-ri-du | |
| 3 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL KUR.⸢KUR⸣ | |
| 4 | be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 5 | ṭup-pi ša₂ LUGAL ip-pu-šu₂ | |
| 6 | [ma]-ṭu u₃ ul ša₂-lim | |
| 7 | [a]-du-u₂ ṭup-pi | |
| 8 | ⸢la⸣-bi-ru ša₂ am-mu-ra-pi LUGAL | |
| 9 | [e]-pu-šu₂ ma-al-ṭa-ru | |
| 10 | [ša₂] ⸢pa⸣-ni am-mu-ra-pi LUGAL | |
| 11 | ki-i aš₂-pu-ru | |
| 12 | ul-tu TIN.TIR{ki} | |
| 13 | at-ta-ša₂-a | |
| b.e. | ||
| 14 | LUGAL ne₂-pe-šu₂ | |
| 15 | [x]+⸢x⸣ pi-it-⸢ti⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | ša₂ {1}a-[ša₂-ri-du] | |
| 3' | qa-at-[an ul-tu] | |
| 4' | ul-la ⸢DI⸣-[x x] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 5 | a-na-ku ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 6 | li-qi₂-pu-ni | |
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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