ABL 0851 (P240426)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0851 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240426 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, my lord: your servant Lanš[ê]. [Good health] to the king, my lord! [Say to] the king, [my] lord, for the well-being of the ki[ng, my lord]: |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [The king], my lord, [...] |
| Obverse [6:14] o 77–o 1414 | [Concerning what the king], my [lord], wrote: "[...] |
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 | [a-na] LUGAL be-li₂-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka] {1}la-an-⸢še⸣-[e] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a]-na LUGAL be-li₂-[ia] | |
| 4 | [um-ma a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL be-li₂-⸢ia⸣-[a-ma] | |
| 5 | [um-ma a]-⸢na⸣ DI-mu ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-li₂-ia] | |
| 6 | [x x x LUGAL] be-li₂ [x x x x] | |
| 7 | [ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂]-a iš-pur ⸢um⸣-[ma] | |
| 8 | [x x x x] ša₂ [x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 9 | [x x x x x]+⸢x x x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 10 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ x [x x x] | |
| 11 | [x x x x x] ⸢tu⸣ bi [x x x] | |
| 12 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 13 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ma [x x] | |
| 14 | [x x x x x x] ib [x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x] EN-ia [x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 3' | [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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