ABL 0748 + 1052 (P238470)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0748 + 1052 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238470 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | Your servant Nabû-ušallim: I would gladly die for the vizier, my lord! Say to my lord: |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | [... Sea]landers, sons of Ya[kin] |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | [...] 'temple-enterers' of E[anna] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...] I [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...] the [dep]endents he returned to me [...] |
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-u₂-šal-⸢lim⸣ | |
| 2 | a-na di-na-an {lu₂}SUKKAL be-li₂-⸢ia₂ lul⸣-lik | |
| 3 | ⸢um⸣-ma-a a-na be-li₂-ia₂-a-ma | |
| 4 | [x x x KUR—tam]-tim DUMU-MEŠ ša₂ {1}ia-[ki-ni] | |
| 5 | [x x x x {lu₂]}TU—E₂-MEŠ {lu₂]}TU—E₂-MEŠ ša₂ E₂.[AN.NA] | |
| 6 | [x x x x] ⸢x x da⸣ [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x] ba [x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x a]-na-ku [x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x {lu₂}a-me]-lut-tu u₂-tir-an-⸢ni⸣ | |
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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