ABL 0560 (P237933)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0560 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237933 |
| 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 [1:3] o 2'2'–o 3'3' | The ci[ty] and the guard of the king, my lord, are well. |
| Obverse [3:12] o 4'4'– | When I wrote to Il-iada', "Send oil and cress here so that I can give to the king's servants," he refused to give them. Furthermore: |
| Reverse [0:9] r 1r 1–r 99 | Nabû-na'id, a 'temple-enterer' of the temple, planned a crush against the city, saying "I will have the city destroyed!" |
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' | [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | šul-mu a-na ⸢URU⸣ [o] | |
| 3' | u EN.NUN ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-⸢ia₂⸣ | |
| 4' | a-na {1}DINGIR—ia₂-a-da-aʾ | |
| 5' | ki-i aš₂-pu-ru-u₂ um-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 6' | I₃.GIŠ u {sar}sah-⸢le⸣-[e] | |
| 7' | šu-bi-lam-ma a-na | |
| 8' | ARAD-MEŠ ša₂ LUGAL lud-din | |
| 9' | ul i-man-gur | |
| 10' | ul i-nam-din | |
| 11' | u₃ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {1}{d}AG—NI₂.TUK | |
| 2 | {lu₂}TU—E₂ {lu₂}TU—E₂ ša₂ E₂—DINGIR E₂—DINGIR | |
| 3 | šu-up-ta a-na | |
| 4 | UGU-hi URU | |
| 5 | i-ti-pu-uš | |
| 6 | um-ma URU a-na | |
| 7 | a-ba-ta lud-din | |
| 8 | [x x]+⸢x⸣-ti ⸢zi⸣-[x]+⸢x⸣ [x] | |
| 9 | [x x x] ⸢ul⸣ [x x x] | |
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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