ABL 0999 (P238080)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0999 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238080 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [You]r [servant] Gabbaru. I [w]ould gladly die for the king, my lord! Say [t]o the king, my lord: |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | The soldiers whom the king sent |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | [... the ki]ng [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [b]efore the ki[ng] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | al[l ......] |
| Reverse [3:5] r 4'4'–r 5'5' | I shall go where the king sends (me) to. |
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}gab-ba-ri | |
| 2 | [a]-⸢na⸣ di-na-an LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 3 | ⸢lul⸣-lik um-ma-a | |
| 4 | [a]-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂-a-ma | |
| 5 | ERIM-MEŠ ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 6 | iš-pu-⸢ra⸣ | |
| 7 | [x]+⸢x⸣ [x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x] ⸢pa⸣-an ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x] | |
| 3' | [x]-⸢sa⸣-a-nu ⸢gab⸣-[bi] | |
| 4' | [a]-šar LUGAL i-⸢šap-par⸣ | |
| 5' | ⸢lul⸣-lik | |
| 6' | [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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