ABL 1327 (P238491)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1327 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238491 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | A tablet of Šama[š-...] to the commandant, [his] fat[her: Good] health to my father! |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | May he ask [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | the palace [...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | let me do [...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | let me give [...] |
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 | ṭup-pi {1}{d}⸢UTU⸣—[x x] | |
| 2 | a-na {lu₂}GAR—UMUŠ {lu₂}GAR—UMUŠ ⸢AD⸣-[šu₂] | |
| 3 | a-na AD-ia [lu-u₂] | |
| 4 | šu-lum [x x x x] | |
| 5 | ⸢iš⸣-[x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | liš-⸢al⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ṭa-hu-[x x x x x] | |
| 3' | E₂.GAL ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 4' | lu-pu-uš i-[x x] | |
| 5' | lud-din [o] | |
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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