ABL 0837 (P238682)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0837 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238682 |
| 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 [0:7] 11–77 | [Your servant] Nabû-bel-šumate: [I would] gla[dly di]e fo[r the k]ing, my lord! Say to the king, my lord: I have sent my messenger to greet the king, the horses [and] the soldiers. |
| Obverse [7:8] 88–88 | My [...], whom [...] to [...] |
| Obverse [8:10] 99–1010 | [...] Bit-[PN] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | [ARAD-ka] {1}{d}AG—EN—MU-MEŠ | |
| 2 | [a]-na di-⸢na⸣-[an] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 3 | [lul]-⸢lik⸣ um-ma-[a] | |
| 4 | [a]-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia-a-ma | |
| 5 | {lu₂}DUMU—KIN-⸢ia⸣ {lu₂}DUMU—KIN-⸢ia⸣ a-na šul-[mi] | |
| 6 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ {anše}KUR.RA-⸢MEŠ⸣ [u₃] | |
| 7 | ⸢ERIM-MEŠ⸣ al-tap-⸢ra⸣ [x x] | |
| 8 | [x x x]-a ša₂ a-⸢na⸣ [x x x] | |
| 9 | [x x x x] E₂—{1}{d}[x x x] | |
| 10 | [x x x x] ⸢qu⸣ [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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