ABL 0145 (P334091)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0145 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334091 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the treasurer, my lord: your servant Aššur-reṣuwa. Good health to my lord! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | The messenger of the Ukkean who went to Urarṭu has come down to Assyria, and proceeded from Assyria to the land of the Great Shepherd. In Muṣaṣir [......] |
| Reverse [1:11] r 2'2'– | My lord should know the [heart] of this matter. I will write to the palace everything that was written in this letter; I am writing to my lord only these ascertained facts. |
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 {lu₂v}IGI.DUB\dm be-li₂\d-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}aš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu\p a-na be-li₂\d-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {lu₂v}A—KIN {lu₂v}A—KIN ša {kur}u₂\m-ka-a.a | |
| 5 | ša a-na\t {kur}URI\m e-lu-u-ni | |
| 6 | a-na KUR—aš-šur{ki} i-tu-ri-di | |
| 7 | TA@v\m ŠA₃ KUR—aš-šur{ki} ina KUR {lu₂v}⸢SIPA⸣ GAL | |
| 8 | [e]-⸢te⸣-ti-iq ina {uru}mu-ṣa-ṣir | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣+[x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2' | a-bi-te\p an-ni-te | |
| 3' | be-li₂ lu u₂-da | |
| 4' | mi-i-nu ša ši-ti\t-ni | |
| 5' | ša\t ŠA₃ e-gir₂-te\p | |
| 6' | an-ni-te ina E₂.GAL | |
| 7' | la-aš₂-pur\p | |
| r.e. | ||
| 8 | di-ib-bi an-nu-te | |
| 9 | ku-un-nu-te\p | |
| 10 | ⸢šu⸣-nu UGU be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 11 | a-sap-ra | |
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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