ABL 0886 (P237836)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0886 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237836 |
| 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 female servant Barsi[pitu]. Good health to the king, [my] lor[d]! |
| Obverse [3:24] o 44– | Under the protection of the gods of the [king, our lord], we arrived safe and sound at Bit-[Dakuri]. Ana-Na[bû-taklak] and the entire population of Bit-Dakuri rejoiced in our presence, and they keep blessing the king, our lord: "Now we know that [[the king]] our lord has rehabilitated Bit-Dakuri and will put it to the lead, as he has sent us the son of our lord! And we shall forever live under the protection of the king, our lord." |
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 | GEME₂-ka {mi₂}⸢bar-si⸣-[pi-tu] | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-li₂-ia] | |
| 4 | ina GIŠ.MI DINGIR-MEŠ ša₂ [LUGAL] | |
| 5 | ina DI-mu a-na E₂—{1}[da-ku-ru] | |
| 6 | ni-te-ru-ub {1}a-na—{d}⸢AG⸣—[tak-lak] | |
| 7 | u₃ UN-MEŠ KUR ša₂ {1}da-⸢ku-ru⸣ | |
| 8 | gab-bi-šu₂-nu ina pa-ni-ni | |
| 9 | ih-ta-mu-u₂ mim-ma | |
| 10 | a-na LUGAL EN-i-ni | |
| 11 | ik-ta-nar-ra-bu | |
| 12 | um-ma en-na ni-i-du | |
| 13 | [ša₂ LUGAL] EN-an-ni | |
| 14 | E₂—{1}da-ku-ru | |
| 15 | ik-ṣu-ru-ma a-na | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16 | ap-pi u₂-še-ṣu | |
| 17 | ša₂ DUMU EN-i-ni | |
| 18 | iš-pu-ra-an-na-ši | |
| r | ||
| 1 | u₃ ni-i-ni | |
| 2 | ina GIŠ.MI LUGAL be-li₂-i-ni | |
| 3 | a-na da-riš | |
| 4 | bal-ṭa-a-nu | |
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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