ABL 0061 (P334012)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0061 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334012 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-šumu-iddina. The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [7:10] o 88–o 1010 | 30 Kushite horses from Parsua, |
| Obverse [10:14] o 1111– | 5 horses — deficit of the teams of Aššur, |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | 16 Kushite, |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | 47 Mesean: |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | 88 horses in all from Lahiru; |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | 46 Kushite horses, |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | 52 Mesean: |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | 98 in all from the land of [...] |
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—MU—AŠ | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | be-li₂-ia a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | a—dan-niš {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 7 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 8 | 30 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 9 | {kur}ku-sa-a-a | |
| 10 | ša {uru}par-su-a | |
| 11 | 05 KUR-MEŠ bat-qu | |
| 12 | ša u₂-ra-a-te | |
| 13 | ša aš-šur | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 16 {kur}ku-sa-a-a | |
| 2 | 47 {kur}me-sa-a-a | |
| 3 | PAB 88 KUR-MEŠ | |
| 4 | ša {uru}la-hi-ru | |
| 5 | PAB 46 KUR-MEŠ {kur}ku-sa-a-a | |
| 6 | 52 {kur}me-sa-a-a | |
| 7 | PAB 98 ša {kur}⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
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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