ABL 1040 (P239216)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1040 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239216 |
| 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/saa21 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [A message] from Assurbanipal, king of [Assyria, t]o Tammaritu, king of El[am], my [son]: I [and my palace] are well, [may] you [and your palace] be well. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | [...] sent the beginning of the message [...]: |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [Through] the decision of Aššur and [my] gods [...] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | [...] the king of [...] |
| Top [0:1] t.e. 1t.e. 1–t.e. 1t.e. 1 | [...] Elam [......] |
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 | ⸢IM⸣ {1}AN.ŠAR₂—DU₃—A LUGAL [KUR—AN.ŠAR₂{ki]} | |
| 2 | [a]-⸢na⸣ {1}tam-mar-ID₂ LUGAL {kur}⸢NIM⸣.[MA{ki]} | |
| 3 | ⸢ŠEŠ⸣-ia₂ šu-lum ia₂-a-[ši a-na E₂.GAL-ia₂] | |
| 4 | [lu] šu-lum a-na ka-⸢a⸣-[ša₂ a-na E₂.GAL-ka] | |
| 5 | ⸢re⸣-eš ši-pir-ti il-ta-⸢par⸣-[u-ni-ka] | |
| 6 | [ina] ⸢EŠ.BAR⸣ ša₂ AN.ŠAR₂ u DINGIR-MEŠ-[ia x x] | |
| 7 | [x x x x x] LUGAL {kur}[x x x x x] | |
| t.e. | ||
| 1 | {⸢kur⸣}NIM.MA{ki} [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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