ABL 1467 (P239306)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1467 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239306 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | Elam [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | the ol[d] border [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | the Lady of Uruk and [...] |
| Obverse [4:6] o 5'5'–o 6'6' | Now the king has [...] for [the ... of] his gods [...] |
| Obverse [6:8] o 7'7'– | they rejoice, before [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | of Sarg[on ...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | the Bit-Amu[kaneans ...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | of Sarg[on ...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | have carried away [...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | of Sarg[on ...] |
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' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | {kur}NIM.MA{ki} [x x x x] | |
| 3' | mi-ṣir la-bi-[ru x x x] | |
| 4' | {d}GAŠAN ša₂ UNUG{ki} u [x x x x] | |
| 5' | en-na LUGAL a-na ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 6' | DINGIR-MEŠ-šu₂ it-[x x x x x] | |
| 7' | ha-mu-u₂ ina IGI [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša₂ {1}LUGAL—⸢GIN⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2 | {lu₂}E₂—{1}a-⸢muk⸣-[a-nu x x x] | |
| 3 | ša₂ {1}LUGAL—⸢GIN⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 4 | it-tab-lu [x x x x x x] | |
| 5 | ša₂ {1}LUGAL—⸢GIN⸣ [x 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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