ABL 1457 (P238489)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1457 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238489 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king of the lands, [my] l[ord]: your servant, Bel-[...]. May Bel and Nabû b[less the king of the lands], my lord. |
| Obverse [4:7] o 55–o 77 | As to what the king of the lands, [my] lo[rd, wrote to me], saying: "Go and see where the [...] are living, (and) [write to me]!" |
| Obverse [7:11] o 88–o 1111 | Under the protection of the king of the lands, [my] lord, [the ...] where they are living is very g[ood]. There i[s] land and water there, (and there is) happiness in the city. On the bo[rder], |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | the people [...] the territory |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313 | [...] in their presence [...] |
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 | a-na LUGAL KUR.KUR ⸢be⸣-[li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}EN—⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 3 | {d}EN u {d}AG a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL KUR.KUR] | |
| 4 | be-li₂-ia ⸢lik⸣-[ru-bu] | |
| 5 | ša₂ LUGAL KUR.KUR ⸢EN⸣-[a iš-pu-ra] | |
| 6 | um-ma a-lik-[ma x x x] | |
| 7 | a-šar aš₂-bu-uʾ a-⸢mur⸣ [šup-ra] | |
| 8 | ina GIŠ.MI ša₂ LUGAL KUR.KUR be-li₂-[ia x x] | |
| 9 | a-šar aš₂-bu-uʾ ma-a-du ⸢ba⸣-[ni-ma] | |
| 10 | qaq-qa-ru u₃ me-e i-ba-⸢aš₂⸣-[ši] | |
| 11 | ina URU ⸢ŠA₃⸣ ṭa-a-bi ina UGU-hi ⸢mi⸣-[ṣir] | |
| 12 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ qaq-qa-ru UN-MEŠ [x x] | |
| 13 | [x x x x] ina pa-⸢ni-šu₂-nu 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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