ABL 1182 (P240184)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1182 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240184 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | Your servant Nabû-[...: I would gladly] die for the king, my (lit. "his") lor[d! Say to] the king, my lord: |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | [I am herewith sending] the throne of Bel [... t]o the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [5:8] o 66–o 88 | The sign of a (servant) of 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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}AG—⸢x⸣+[x x x a-na di-na-an] | |
| 2 | ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-šu₂ lul-[lik um-ma-a] | |
| 3 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂-[a-ma] | |
| 4 | ku-us-su {d}EN [x x x] | |
| 5 | [a-na] ⸢UGU⸣ LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ [ul-te-bi-la] | |
| 6 | ⸢it⸣-tu₂ {lu₂}ša₂—LUGAL [x x x] | |
| 7 | [x] it ṣa ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 8 | [x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x] pi [x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x] ⸢nit⸣-tar ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x] a [x x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x 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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