ABL 0156 (P334102)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0156 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334102 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king, my] lord: yo[ur servant] Zeru-ibni. [Good h]ealth to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | The king, my lord, knows that ... [...... |
| Reverse [1:4] r 2'2'–r 4'4' | ...] about whom/which the king my lord wr[ote to me], Zarî has just left [for] the king, my lord. Let the king, my lord, ask [him]. |
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] | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ {1}NUMUN\d—ib-ni | |
| 3 | [lu] ⸢DI⸣-mu a-na LUGAL be-⸢li₂⸣-[ia₂] | |
| 4 | LUGAL be-li₂ u₂-⸢da\d ki⸣-[i] | |
| 5 | na\td-gu-ur-tu₂ [x x x x] | |
| 6 | [x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | {⸢lut}x x x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ša\d LUGAL be-li₂ ⸢iš⸣-[pur-an-ni] | |
| 3' | an-nu-rig\t {1}za-ri-[i ina pa-an] | |
| 4' | LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ i-⸢tal⸣-[ka] | |
| 5' | LUGAL be-li₂ liš\d-⸢al⸣-[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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