ABL 0835 (P238437)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0835 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238437 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | Your [ser]vant Nabû-bel-šumate: I would gladly die for the king, my lord! Say to the king, my lord: I have s[en]t my messenger to greet [the king], the hor[se]s and [the soldi]ers. |
| Obverse [7:9] o 88–o 99 | After [I went] to the palace to the presence of the king, my lord, |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | [...] 7 men |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313 | [...] Now |
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}{d}⸢AG⸣—EN—MU-MEŠ | |
| 2 | [a]-⸢na⸣ di-na-[an] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂-ia | |
| 3 | ⸢lul⸣-lik um-ma-a | |
| 4 | [a]-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia-a-ma | |
| 5 | {⸢lu₂⸣}DUMU—KIN-ia {⸢lu₂⸣}DUMU—KIN-ia a-na šul-mi | |
| 6 | [LUGAL] {anše}⸢KUR⸣.[RA]-MEŠ u₃ | |
| 7 | [ERIM]-MEŠ ⸢al-tap⸣-ra | |
| 8 | ⸢ul⸣-tu ⸢pa⸣-[an a]-na E₂.GAL | |
| 9 | [a-na] ⸢pa⸣-an [LUGAL be]-li₂-ia | |
| 10 | [al-li-ku] ⸢x⸣+[x x]-⸢lu⸣-mu | |
| 11 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x]-a-ti | |
| 12 | [x x x x x] 07 ERIM-MEŠ | |
| 13 | [x x x x x x] en-na | |
| 14 | [x x x x x x]-bu | |
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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