ABL 0048 (P334000)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0048 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334000 |
| 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 Akkullanu. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:9] o 55–o 99 | Concerning the priests of Cal[ah] about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me, I questioned a priest personally; he said as follows: |
| Reverse [0:10] r 1'1'– | "Nobody has hea[rd] their story [...]. I [gave] the order: 'Let them be held in my house [...] until the king summons them and asks about his servants who were killed.'" |
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 ARAD-ka | |
| 2 | {1}a-kul-la-nu lu-u DI-mu | |
| 3 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 5 | ina UGU {lu₂}SANGA-MEŠ ša {uru}kal-[ha] | |
| 6 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-a-ni | |
| 7 | a-na-ku ki-i ra-ma-ni-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 8 | a-na {lu₂}SANGA as-sa-⸢al⸣ | |
| 9 | ⸢ki-i⸣ an-⸢ni-i iq-ṭi⸣-[bi-a] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢ṭe₃-en-šu-nu⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2' | me-me-e-ni la ⸢iš⸣-[me] | |
| 3' | ma-a ṭe₃-e-mu ⸢as⸣-[sa-kan] | |
| 4' | ma-a ina E₂-ia ina ⸢ba⸣-[x x] | |
| 5' | lu ṣa-ab-bu-⸢tu⸣ | |
| 6' | a-du LUGAL re-su-[nu] | |
| 7' | i-na-aš₂-šu-u-ni | |
| 8' | ina UGU ARAD-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 9' | ša i-du-ku-u-ni | |
| r.e. | ||
| 10 | i-ša₂-al-u-ni | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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