ABL 0803 (P239179)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0803 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239179 |
| 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] 11–44 | [Your servant] Marduk-šuma-iddina, the governor. [I] would gladly die for the king, my lord! May [Nabû and] Marduk bless (the king), my lord! [Say to the king], my lord: |
| Obverse [4:5] 55–55 | [As to what the king wrote: "Gu]ard yourself!" — |
| Obverse [5:6] 66–66 | [...] my grave misdemeanour [...] |
| Obverse [6:7] 77–77 | [...] the king [...] |
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]}AMAR.UTU—MU—MU {lu₂}EN.[NAM] | |
| 2 | [a-na] ⸢di⸣-na-ni LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 3 | [lul-lik {d}AG u₃ {d]}AMAR.UTU a-na <LUGAL> be-li₂-ia₂ ⸢lik⸣-[ru-bu] | |
| 4 | [um-ma-a a-na LUGAL] ⸢be⸣-li₂-ia-a-ma | |
| 5 | [ša₂ LUGAL iš-pu-ra] ⸢um⸣-ma ra-man-ga u₂-[ṣur] | |
| 6 | [x x x x x] ⸢hi⸣-ṭu-u₂-a dan-⸢nu⸣ [o] | |
| 7 | [x x x x x x x]-gu LUGAL [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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