ABL 0536 (P238494)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0536 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238494 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:9] o 1o 1– | [T]o the king, [my] lord: your [servant] Šamaš-šumu-[ukin]. Good health to the king, [my lord]! May Nabû and Marduk bless the [king, my lord]! May the gr[eat] gods remember [the king, my lord], ve[ry] favourably [indeed...]. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | A reminder [......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | my heart [......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [...] 30 [......] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [...] there [......] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [let] them 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 | [a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL be-li-[ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-ka {1}{d}GIŠ.NU—MU—[GI.NA] | |
| 3 | [lu] DI-mu a-na LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[li₂-ia] | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU a-[na LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu DINGIR-MEŠ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 6 | hi-is-su-tu₂ ša [x x x x x] | |
| 7 | a-na SIG₅ ša a-[x x x x] | |
| 8 | li-ih-su-su [x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | hi-is-su-tu₂ [x x x x] | |
| 2 | ŠA₃-bi pa-[x x x x] | |
| 3 | [x] 30 ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 4 | [ina] ŠA₃-bi [x x x x] | |
| 5 | [lid]-di-nu [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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