ABL 0640 (P238718)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0640 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238718 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1'1'–o 4'4' | May our lord [quickly] write [us] that he is in go[od health and] hap[py]! |
| Obverse [4:8] o 5'5'–o 8'8' | I and Aqar-Bel-lumur are now coming to the review. |
| Obverse [8:15] o 9'9'– | (As to) the silver sword, of which I talked with my lord and my lord told me: "It will be made" — may my lord make a [beauti]ful silver sword and keep it for me. |
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' | ⸢šu-lum⸣ [u₃] | |
| 2' | ṭu-ub [ŠA₃-bi] | |
| 3' | ša₂ be-li₂-i-ni [ha-an-ṭiš] | |
| 4' | liš-pu-ra-an-[na-a-šu₂] | |
| 5' | a-du-u₂ a-na-⸢ku⸣ | |
| 6' | u {1}KAL—{d}EN—lu-mur | |
| 7' | a-na ma-šar-ti | |
| 8' | ni-il-la-ka | |
| 9' | ⸢GIR₂⸣ KUG.UD ša₂ a-na be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 10' | ⸢aq⸣-bu-u₂ u be-li₂ | |
| 11' | ⸢iq⸣-ba-a um-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 12' | ⸢ip⸣-pu-šu₂ GIR₂ KUG.UD | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [bab-ba]-⸢nu⸣-u₂ be-li₂ | |
| 2 | li-pu-uš-ma | |
| 3 | li-ik-la-a | |
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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