ABL 0136 (P334083)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0136 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334083 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, my lord: your servant Šamaš-upahhir. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:9] o 55–o 99 | The king my lord's servants, the city-rulers under my authority whom the king [my lord] o[rdered] to work in Milqia [have co]me [to my presence saying: "...... |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | "Send [..... to the pa]lace!" |
| Reverse [1:4] r 2'2'–r 4'4' | They have made [me] sack [the ... of the ki]ng, my lord; what does the king my lord say? |
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\t LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}UTU—u₂-pa-hir₂ | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | ARAD-MEŠ-ni ša\dm LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | {lu₂v}EN—URU-MEŠ\m-ni {lu₂v}EN—URU-MEŠ\m-ni ša ŠU.2-ia | |
| 6 | ša LUGAL [be-li₂ ina] ⸢ŠA₃⸣ {uru}mil-qi-a | |
| 7 | ⸢dul-lu⸣ [a-na e-pa-a]-še | |
| 8 | ⸢iq⸣-[bu-u]-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 9 | [ina pa-ni-ia it-tal-ku]-⸢ni⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [ma-a ina E₂].GAL šu-⸢pur⸣ [x x] | |
| 2' | [x ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ia | |
| 3' | u₂-sa-ap-ti\t-[u-ni] | |
| 4' | mi-i-nu ša\dm LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 5' | i-qa\d-ab-bu-u-ni | |
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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