ABL 0014 (P333966)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0014 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333966 |
| 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/saa10 · 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, our lord: your servants Adad-šumu-uṣur and Marduk-šakin-šumi. Good health to the king, our lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, our lord! |
| Obverse [5:7] o 66–o 77 | Concerning the child ab[out whom the kin]g, [our lo]rd |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...] upon them. |
| Reverse [2:4] r 3'3'–r 4'4' | I[f it is accept]able to the king, orders should be given for the night. They should not hesitate. |
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-ni | |
| 2 | ARAD-MEŠ-ka {1}{d}IM—MU—PAB | |
| 3 | {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—GAR—MU | |
| 4 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ni | |
| 5 | {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ni | |
| 6 | lik-ru-bu ina UGU {lu₂}TUR | |
| 7 | ⸢ša LUGAL⸣ be-[li₂-ni] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ina ⸢UGU⸣-hi-šu₂-nu ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 3' | ⸢šum⸣-[mu ina] ⸢IGI⸣ LUGAL ⸢ma⸣-[hir] | |
| 4' | ṭe₃-e-⸢mu a⸣-na ba-a-di | |
| 5' | liš-ku-nu ⸢lu la⸣ i-sa-am-mu-u | |
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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