ABL 1445 (P238005)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1445 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238005 |
| 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 [1:11] o 2'2'– | The men of the king, my lord, having seen them, I immediately launched a surprise attack on them and took them prisoner. Now then I am sending them to the king, my lord. The king, my lord, should question them. |
| Reverse [1:4] r 22–r 44 | The king should also ask them, "Who has like [...] ...ed a house for sale [...]?" |
| Reverse [4:9] r 55–r 99 | [Nur]ea has weighed half a mina of silver and given it [to Ka]lbu, [saying]: "Go [and ...] order [...]" |
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⸣-nu ka-[x x x] | |
| 2' | ERIM-MEŠ ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 3' | ki-i i-mur-šu₂-nu-ti | |
| 4' | ra-ad-pi man-di-su-nu | |
| 5' | ki-i ad-du-u₂ | |
| 6' | aṣ-ṣab-ta-aš₂-šu₂-nu-ti | |
| 7' | a-du-u₂ a-na pa-an | |
| 8' | LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 9' | al-tap-raš-šu₂-nu-ti | |
| r | ||
| 1 | LUGAL be-li₂-ia liš-al-aš₂-šu₂-nu-ti | |
| 2 | u₃ LUGAL liš-al-šu₂-nu-ti | |
| 3 | [um]-ma man-nu ki-i | |
| 4 | [x x]-⸢bu⸣ E₂ ana ma-hi-ri iš aʾ | |
| 5 | [x x]-⸢bu⸣ 1:2 MA.NA KUG.UD | |
| 6 | {1}ZALAG₂]-e-a ki-i i-hi-ṭu | |
| 7 | [a-na {1}⸢kal⸣-bi it-ta-din | |
| 8 | [um-ma] a-lik ṭe₃-e-mu [x x] | |
| 9 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[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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