ABL 0041 (P333993)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0041 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333993 |
| 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, [my lord]: your servant Issar-šu[mu-ereš]. Good health to the king, [my lord]! May Nabû and [Marduk] b[less] the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:11] o 66–o 1111 | As to what the king, my lord, recen[tly] wr[ote to me]: "As [...] all [......] of the [queen] mother [...] |
| Reverse [2:8] r 3'3'–r 8'8' | Concer[ning ......], the father [of the king] intr[oduced you] into the Su[ccession] Palace; nothing is s[aid] about the [queen mother] there. |
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-eš] | |
| 3 | lu šul-mu a-na LUGAL [EN-ia] | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {d}[AMAR.UTU] | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia ⸢lik⸣-[ru-bu] | |
| 6 | ša is-su ha-⸢ra⸣-[am-me] | |
| 7 | LUGAL be-li iš-[pur-an-ni] | |
| 8 | ma-a a-ki ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 9 | gab-bu [x x x x x] | |
| 10 | ša AMA—[LUGAL AMA—[LUGAL x x x x] | |
| 11 | u₂-di-[x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ⸢e⸣-[x x x x] | |
| 3' | ina ⸢UGU⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 4' | AD-šu₂ [ša LUGAL] | |
| 5' | ina ⸢E₂—re⸣-[du-u-ti] ⸢E₂—re⸣-[du-u-ti] | |
| 6' | ⸢u₂-se⸣-[x x] | |
| 7' | ša {mi₂}[AMA—LUGAL] {mi₂}[AMA—LUGAL] | |
| 8' | ina ŠA₃-bi la ⸢qa⸣-[bi] | |
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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