ABL 0083 (P334032)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0083 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334032 |
| 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 Nabû-ahhe-eriba. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:11] o 66–o 1111 | Con[cerning the m]uster about wh[ich the kin]g, my lord, wr[ote] to me — ... [...] ... |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1'1'–r 5'5' | [I] have sent [... to] the king, [my] lord; the king may act as it (best) suits the king, my lord. |
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}{d}PA—PAB-MEŠ—SU | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ina [UGU] ⸢ma⸣-šar-te | |
| 7 | ⸢ša LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ | |
| 8 | ⸢iš⸣-[pu]-⸢ra⸣-an-ni | |
| 9 | UD [x x x] ša₂-da-at-tu-nu | |
| 10 | ⸢lu šu⸣-nu | |
| 11 | [x x x] ⸢x x⸣ ma-⸢šar-te⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [a-na] ⸢LUGAL EN⸣-[ia] | |
| 2' | [as]-sap-ra | |
| 3' | ki ša ina IGI LUGAL | |
| 4' | EN-ia ma-hi-ir-u-ni | |
| 5' | LUGAL le-pu-uš | |
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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