ABL 0031 (P333983)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0031 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333983 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, my lord: your servant Issar-šumu-ereš. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:11] o 77–o 1111 | As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Has any curse been written there?" — |
| Obverse [11:15] o 1212– | I have checked and there is none. A curse has (definitely) not been written. |
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-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}15—MU—KAM | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 6 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | ša LUGAL be-li | |
| 8 | iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 9 | ma-a i-zir-tu-u | |
| 10 | me-me-ni ina ŠA₃-bi | |
| 11 | ša-aṭ-rat | |
| 12 | ub-ta-ʾi-i | |
| r | ||
| 1 | la-aš₂-šu₂ | |
| 2 | i-zir-tu | |
| 3 | la ša₂-aṭ-rat | |
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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