ABL 1317 (P238418)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1317 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238418 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [...] the king, my lord [...] |
| Obverse [1:9] o 2'2'–o 9'9' | [The ir]on that the king, [my] lord, gave to the smi[ths] for the work — they have sold it to the merchants of Calah for money, and [re]fuse [...] |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1'1'–r 5'5' | have sold [...] at five minas each. They have put it in a weapon, and have taken it down. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | When I heard [...] |
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] LUGAL be-⸢li₂⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2' | [AN].BAR ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-[a] | |
| 3' | a-na {lu₂}nap-pa-⸢ha⸣-[ni] | |
| 4' | a-na dul-la id-di-⸢nu⸣ | |
| 5' | a-na {lu₂}DAM.QAR-MEŠ | |
| 6' | ša₂ {uru}ka-lah₃ a-na KUG.UD | |
| 7' | ⸢ki⸣-i id-di-nu | |
| 8' | [ul i]-man-gu-ru-ma | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x]-bi | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x] ina 05 MA.NA-AM₃ | |
| 2' | it-tan-nu ina ŠA₃-bi | |
| 3' | {giš}TUKUL ki-i iš-ku-nu | |
| 4' | a-na šu-pa-lu | |
| 5' | it-ta-šu-⸢u₂⸣ | |
| 6' | ki-i aš₂-⸢mu-u₂⸣ | |
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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