ABL 0016 (P333968)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0016 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333968 |
| 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 [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | [To the king], our lord: your [servant]s [Adad]-šumu-uṣur, [Urad]-Ea, [Issar-šumu]-ereš and [Akkul]lanu. [Good hea]lth to the king, our [lord]! |
| Obverse [8:11] o 99–o 1111 | [As to what the king, our lord, w]rote to us: "[...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [Did he s]ay [...]? |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [...] would have been cured. [The king our lord should not] be continuously eclipsed. |
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⸣ EN-ni | |
| 2 | [ARAD-MEŠ]-⸢ni⸣-ka | |
| 3 | {1}{d}IM]—MU—PAB | |
| 4 | {1}ARAD]—{⸢d⸣}E₂.A | |
| 5 | {1}15—MU]—APIN-eš | |
| 6 | {1}ak-kul]-la-nu | |
| 7 | [lu DI]-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 8 | [EN]-ni | |
| 9 | [ša₂ LUGAL EN-ni] ⸢iš⸣-pur-an-na-ši-ni | |
| 10 | [ma-a x x]+⸢x⸣+[x]+⸢x⸣-ba-a-ni | |
| 11 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-šu | |
| 2' | [x x x x iq]-⸢ṭe₃⸣-bi-i | |
| 3' | [x x x] lu ta-pa-ṭir | |
| 4' | [LUGAL EN-ni] ka-a.a-ma-nu-um-ma | |
| 5' | [lu la] ⸢u₂⸣-du-ur | |
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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