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ABL 0160 (P334106)

Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationABL 0160
IDP334106
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreLetter
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33[To] the king, [my] lo[rd]: yo[ur servant] Issar-du[ri. Good he]alth to [the king, my lord]!
Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77Concerning the [palace] manager of Arrapha ab[out whom the king, my lord], ga[ve me] orders, now then [...]
Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 881 writing-boa[rd ...]
Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 991 writing-boa[rd ...]
Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010which he [...]
Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 11111 writ[ing-board ...]
Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 12121 writ[ing-board ...]
Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313which I [...]
Obverse [13:14] o 1414–o 1414[I have ...ed] the palace manager
Obverse [14:15] o 1515–o 1515and [...] to the pres[ence of ...]

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
o
1[a-na] LUGAL\d be-[li₂-ia]
2[ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ {1}15—⸢du⸣-[ri]
3[lu-u] ⸢DI⸣-mu a-na [LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂]
4ina UGU {lu₂v}GAL—[E₂.GAL] {lu₂v}GAL—[E₂.GAL]
5ša\d {uru}arrap-ha ⸢ša\d⸣ [LUGAL be-li₂]
6ṭe₃-⸢e⸣-mu iš\d-[kun-an-ni-ni]
7an-nu-⸢rig⸣ [x x x]
801 {giš}⸢le\t⸣-ʾu [x x x]
901 {giš}le\t-ʾu [x x x]
10ša\d ⸢u₂-ki-x⸣+[x x x x]
1101 {giš}⸢le\t⸣-[ʾu x x x]
1201 {giš}⸢le\t⸣-[ʾu x x x]
13⸢ša⸣ a-⸢na-ku a⸣-[x x x]
14{⸢lu₂v⸣}GAL—E₂.GAL {⸢lu₂v⸣}GAL—E₂.GAL [x x x]
15⸢u₃⸣ ina pa-[an x x]

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