ABL 0913 (P238011)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0913 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238011 |
| 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 | Your servant Naṣib-il: I would gladly die for my lord! Say to the king, my lord: |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | I and all the king's men in Bit-D[akuri] have now [...] the work |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | and [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | the brother [...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | heard [...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | in Babyl[on...] |
| Reverse [5:10] r 6'6'– | Now then I have sent with my messenger to the king ever[y ...], three of his sons and [...] five members of his family. |
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 | ARAD-ka {1}na-ṣib—DINGIR | |
| 2 | a-na di-na-an be-li₂-ia lul-lik | |
| 3 | um-ma-a a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia-<ma> | |
| 4 | a-du-u₂ a-na-ku u₃ | |
| 5 | ERIM-MEŠ—LUGAL ERIM-MEŠ—LUGAL ša₂ E₂—{1}⸢da⸣-[ku-ri] | |
| 6 | gab-bi [x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 7 | dul-⸢la⸣ [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢u₃⸣ [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | a-[x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ŠEŠ [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | iš-ma-[x x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | i-na TIN.⸢TIR⸣{[ki} x x x] | |
| 6' | a-du-u₂ mim-⸢mu⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 7' | 03 DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂ u₃ [x x] | |
| 8' | ⸢mam⸣-[ma x] KUR₂ 05 {lu₂}qin-na-šu₂ | |
| 9' | [ina ŠU].2 {lu₂}A—KIN-ia {lu₂}A—KIN-ia a-na | |
| r.e. | ||
| 10 | LUGAL al-tap-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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