ABL 0035 (P333987)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0035 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333987 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, my lord: your servant Issar-šumu-eres. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:12] o 55– | [Con]cerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "The present day, [t]omorrow, and the day after tomorrow, these are (the days) [of] the displays!" — |
| Bottom [0:10] b.e. 12b.e. 12– | on [the ...]th [day] the king, my lord, said as follows about the old displays: "In Arbela, the display should take place from the 27th till the 29th day." |
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 | |
| 4 | be-li₂-ia | |
| 5 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ ša LUGAL be-li | |
| 6 | [iš]-pur-an-ni | |
| 7 | ⸢ma⸣-[a] UD-mu an-ni-u | |
| 8 | ⸢ina⸣ ši-a-ri | |
| 9 | [ina] li-diš | |
| 10 | [x] ⸢an⸣-na-a-ti | |
| 11 | [ša] tak-lim-a-ti | |
| b.e. | ||
| 12 | [UD x]-KAM₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ tak-lim-a-ti | |
| 2 | ⸢la⸣-bir-a-ti | |
| 3 | LUGAL be-li | |
| 4 | ki-i an-ni-i | |
| 5 | iq-ṭi-bi | |
| 6 | ma-a TA@v ŠA₃ UD 27-KAM₂ | |
| 7 | a-di UD 29-KAM₂ | |
| 8 | tak-lim-tu₂ ina {uru}arba-il₃ | |
| 9 | lu-u₂-kal-li-mu | |
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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