ABL 1025 (P238436)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1025 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238436 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [Concerning N]N about whom I wrote to the vizier, my [lord], he is an exempted Borsippean. |
| Obverse [5:7] o 66–o 77 | [...] the vizier, my lord, |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | Borsippa [...]. |
| Reverse [1:6] r 2'2'–r 6'6' | [The vizier], my lord, may do as is agreeable to him and as he sees best. |
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 | [aš₂-šu₂ {1}x]-bu-du | |
| 2 | [ša₂ o] a-na {lu₂}SUKKAL | |
| 3 | [be-li₂]-ia₂ aš₂-pu-ra | |
| 4 | {[lu₂]}⸢DUMU⸣—BAR₂.SIPA{ki} {[lu₂]}⸢DUMU⸣—BAR₂.SIPA{ki} | |
| 5 | {[lu₂}ze]-ek-ku-u₂ šu-u₂ | |
| 6 | [x x] {⸢lu₂⸣}SUKKAL be-li₂-a | |
| 7 | [x x x x]-⸢pu⸣-šu₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ BAR₂.SIPA{ki} | |
| 2' | [x x x] ki-i pa-ni | |
| 3' | {[lu₂}SUKKAL] be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4' | [mah]-⸢ri⸣ ki-i | |
| 5' | [ša₂ i]-⸢le⸣-u₂ | |
| 6' | [le]-⸢pu⸣-uš | |
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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