ABL 1331 (P238519)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1331 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238519 |
| 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 | To the king, m[y] lord: your servant Šama'[gunu]. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | Yabi-il, from the sheikhs [of the ki]ng of Ela[m] |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | Madunu [......] |
| Edge [1:2] e. 22–e. 22 | hith[er ......] |
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-li₂-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 2 | {lu₂}ARAD-ka {1}ša₂-ma-aʾ-[gu-nu] | |
| 3 | lu-u₂ šu-lum a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | EN-ia {1}ia-a-bi—DINGIR | |
| 5 | ⸢ul⸣-tu₂ ŠA₃-bi {lu₂}na-si-[ka-ti] | |
| 6 | [ša₂] ⸢LUGAL⸣ {kur}NIM.MA{⸢ki⸣} | |
| 7 | [x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | {1}ma⸣-du-nu [x x x] | |
| 2 | a-na a-kan-[na 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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