ABL 0086 (P334035)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0086 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334035 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:10] o 1o 1–o 1010 | [To] the king, [our] lord: your [servant]s [PN], Bel-iqi[ša] and Babilayu. Good health to the k[ing], our lord! May Aššur, [Šamaš], Bel (and) Nabû give long days and everlasting years to the king, our lord. |
| Obverse [10:21] o 1111– | The king, our lord, knows that the audience gift of Kanun (X) has been stocked up but there are no shelters where we could deposit the king's wine. May the king, our lord, command that (storage) rooms be shown to us, so that we may proceed. |
| Reverse [5:8] r 66–r 88 | There is much wine of the king — where should we put it? |
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-i-ni] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-MEŠ]-ni-ka {1}[x x x] | |
| 3 | {1}EN—BA-[ša₂] | |
| 4 | {1}KA₂.DINGIR-a.a | |
| 5 | lu-u DI-mu a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 6 | EN-i-ni {d}aš-šur {d}[UTU] | |
| 7 | {d}EN {d}AG UD-MEŠ | |
| 8 | ar-ku-te MU.AN.NA-MEŠ | |
| 9 | da-ra-a-te a-na LUGAL | |
| 10 | EN-i-ni lid-di-nu | |
| 11 | LUGAL EN-i-ni | |
| 12 | u₂-da ki-i | |
| 13 | na-mur-tu₂ ša {iti}AB | |
| 14 | kar-ma-tu-u₂-ni | |
| 15 | u₃ ṣi-il-la-a-te | |
| r | ||
| 1 | la-aš₂-šu₂ E₂ {[giš]}GEŠTIN-MEŠ | |
| 2 | ša LUGAL ni-šak-kan-u-ni | |
| 3 | LUGAL EN-i-ni li-iq-bi | |
| 4 | E₂-MEŠ lu-kal-li-mu-na-ši | |
| 5 | re-⸢e-šu⸣ ni-iš-ši | |
| 6 | {giš}GEŠTIN ša LUGAL | |
| 7 | ma-aʾ-da a-a-ka | |
| 8 | ni-iš-kun | |
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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