ABL 0059 (P334010)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0059 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334010 |
| 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 Nabû-nadin-šumi. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk greatly bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | [Concerning] the governor [...] |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | Let them recite it, write it down and send it to him; he will get afraid of the king and obey. |
| Reverse [3:9] r 4'4'– | Otherwise I swear by your gods that he shall not obey but take away (the country) and separate (from Assyria). |
| Right [0:2] r.e. 9r.e. 9–r.e. 1010 | A servant of the king has come [......] |
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 be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}PA—SUM—MU | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | EN-ia₂ {d}PA u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 6 | a—dan-niš lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | [ina UGU] {lu₂}EN.NAM | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [li]-⸢is⸣-qur liš-ṭur-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 2' | lu-še-bi-lu-ne₂-eš-šu | |
| 3' | i-pa-lah TA@v pa-an LUGAL | |
| 4' | i-šam-me u₂-la-a | |
| 5' | DINGIR-MEŠ-ka lu-di-iu-u | |
| 6' | BE-⸢ma⸣ šu-u₂ i-šam-mu-u-ni | |
| 7' | la i-na-aš₂-šu-u-ni | |
| 8' | la it-tal-la-⸢ku⸣-[u-ni] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 9 | ARAD ša LUGAL ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 10 | it-tal-[ka x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x ša₂]-⸢ki⸣-in | |
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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