ABL 0148 (P334094)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0148 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334094 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-reṣuwa. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [2:6] o 33–o 66 | As to what the king, my lord, wrote me: "Send your spies to the environs of Ṭurušpâ to find out a detailed report!" |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [Fo]ur governors are coming down to [Ṭurušpâ] to do service (in the temple). |
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 be-li₂-ia₂ ARAD-ka {1}aš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a | |
| 2 | ⸢lu DI-mu⸣ a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 3 | ⸢ša LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni ma-a {lu₂vy}da-a.a-li-ka | |
| 4 | ⸢a-na⸣ qa-an-ni {uru}ṭu-ur-uš-pa-a šu-pu\p-ur | |
| 5 | ma-⸢a ṭe₃-e⸣-mu har-ṣu liš-ul-lu | |
| 6 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | 04 {lu₂v⸣}NAM-MEŠ ina ŠA₃ {uru}[ṭu-ur-uš-pa-a] | |
| 2' | u₂\m-ra-du-ni dul-lu ⸢e⸣-[pu-šu] | |
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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