ABL 0070 (P334020)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0070 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334020 |
| 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/saa15 · 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 vizier, my lord: your servant Nabû-šumu-iddina. Good health to the vizier, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | The Urukeans |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | [...] lawsuit |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1'1'–r 4'4' | I am herewith sending [him to th]e v[izier], my lord. Let the vizier, my lord, establ[ish] his case. |
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 {lu₂vy}SUKKAL | |
| 2 | be-li₂-ia | |
| 3 | ARAD\p-ka {1}{d}PA—MU—AŠ | |
| 4 | lu DI-mu a-na {lu₂vy}SUKKAL | |
| 5 | be-li₂-ia | |
| 6 | {lu₂vy}{uru}UNUG{ki}a.a | |
| 7 | [x x x] ⸢de⸣-nu | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [a-na pa-an] {⸢lu₂vy}SUKKAL⸣ | |
| 2' | be-li₂-ia | |
| 3' | u₂-se-bi-la | |
| 4' | {lu₂vy}SUKKAL be-li₂ | |
| 5' | lu-⸢ki⸣-[in]-šu₂ | |
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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