ABL 1027 (P238449)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1027 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238449 |
| 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 | [Yo]ur [servant] Šullum[u: I would] gladly die for the king, my lord! May [Uraš and Ninegal] bless the king, my lord! Say to the king, my lord: |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | Certain unemploy[ed] men [...]. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | Nabû, who overwhelms cri[mes...] |
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}šul-lu-⸢mu⸣ [a-na di-na-an] | |
| 2 | LUGAL be-li₂-ia lul-lik {⸢d⸣}[IB u₃ {d}NIN-E₂.GAL] | |
| 3 | a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂-ia lik-ru-[bu] | |
| 4 | um-ma-a a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia-[a-ma] | |
| 5 | ERIM-MEŠ šu-nu re-qu-⸢ti⸣ [x x] | |
| 6 | d.AG ⸢da⸣-ip hi-⸢ṭa⸣-[ti] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢ku⸣-[x x x x x x x 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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