ABL 0159 (P334105)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0159 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334105 |
| 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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [T]o the king, my lord: your [servant] Issar-duri. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44–o 99 | Concerning the cavalrymen of Nibê about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me, we were already in Media (when) the le[tte]r of the king, my lord, came t[o m]e. |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | [...] I se[nt (word) ...] |
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-ia | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-ka {1}{d}15—du-ri | |
| 3 | ⸢lu⸣-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | ina UGU-hi {lu₂v}ša₂—BAD-HAL-MEŠ | |
| 5 | ša {1}ni-be₂-e ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 6 | iš-pur-an-ni a-ni-nu ma-ṣi | |
| 7 | ina mad-a.a a-ni-nu e-⸢gir₂-tu₂⸣ | |
| 8 | ša LUGAL be-li₂-ia ⸢ina⸣ [UGU]-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 9 | ⸢ta-at-tal⸣-[ka x x x x] | |
| 10 | a-⸢sa⸣-[par x x x x x x] | |
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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