ABL 1440 (P237988)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1440 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237988 |
| 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/saa18 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | my hand t[o ......] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | I will not lear[n ...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | I will not write to anybody else. |
| Obverse [4:8] o 5'5'–o 8'8' | Nabû-eṭir tells me: "[NN] is better for your intercession than all the [servan]ts of the king." |
| Obverse [8:18] o 9'9'– | Now then I am sending Nabû-eṭir, my messenger, to my father with a letter to the palace in his care. He must not spend the night (there); you will send him quickly to the palace by your own mule express. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | [...] in the presence of the king |
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 x] | |
| 2' | ŠU.2-a a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ul a-lam-⸢ma⸣-[ad x x x x x] | |
| 4' | a-na pa-an mam-ma ša₂-nam-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 5' | ul a-šap-par {1}{d}AG—KAR-ir | |
| 6' | [i]-⸢qab⸣-ba-a um-ma al-la | |
| 7' | ⸢ARAD⸣-MEŠ ša₂ LUGAL gab-bi | |
| 8' | {1}x x]+⸢x⸣ a-na AD-u₂-tu-ka | |
| 9' | [ṭa]-a-bi a-du-u₂ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 10' | {1}{d}AG—KAR-ir | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {lu₂}A—KIN-ia₂ {lu₂}A—KIN-ia₂ ši-pir-ti ša₂ E₂.GAL | |
| 2 | ina IGI-šu₂ a-na pa-an AD-ia | |
| 3 | al-tap-raš-šu₂ nu-bat-ta | |
| 4 | la i-ba-a-ta ha-an-ṭiš | |
| 5 | ina kal-le-e ša₂ ram-ni-ka | |
| 6 | a-na E₂.GAL ⸢ta-šap⸣-<pa>-ra | |
| 7 | ina IGI LUGAL [x x 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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