ABL 0901 (P237941)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0901 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237941 |
| 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/saa21 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | A tablet of Ibb[u]tu to Nergal-eṭir, his brother: Good health to my brother! |
| Obverse [4:13] o 55– | I have heard that when the king of Assyria retreated, he pitched camp at the Ibatuna. |
| Reverse [0:8] r 1r 1–r 88 | Now then I’m writing to my brother: let my brother ask the god, let there be an exti[spicy] about this matter. [Will] the fields [...]? |
| Reverse [8:11] r 99–r 1111 | Write me whatever the god says to my brother. |
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 | ṭup-pi {1}ib-⸢bu⸣-tu | |
| 2 | a-na {1}{d}U.GUR—KAR-ir | |
| 3 | ŠEŠ-šu₂ lu-u₂ DI-mu | |
| 4 | a-na ŠEŠ-ia | |
| 5 | al-te-mu | |
| 6 | um-ma LUGAL KUR—aš-šur{ki} | |
| 7 | a-na ku-tal-li | |
| 8 | ki-i is-su-ni | |
| 9 | ina {lu₂}i-ba-tu₂-na | |
| b.e. | ||
| 10 | ma-dak-ti | |
| 11 | it-ta-du 0 | |
| r | ||
| 1 | en-na a-du-u₂ | |
| 2 | a-na ŠEŠ-ia | |
| 3 | al-tap-ra | |
| 4 | DINGIR ŠEŠ-u₂-a | |
| 5 | li-iš-al | |
| 6 | ina ⸢a⸣-ga-ni-[ti] | |
| 7 | lu-⸢u₂⸣ ba-[ri] | |
| 8 | A.ŠA₃-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x]-zu | |
| 9 | mim-ma ša₂ DINGIR | |
| 10 | a-na ŠEŠ-ia | |
| 11 | i-qab-bu-u₂ | |
| 12 | šup-ra | |
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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