ABL 0161 (P334107)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0161 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334107 |
| 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 lo]rd: your [servant] Issar-[duri]. Good health to [the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:10] o 44–o 1010 | [Concer]ning Bel-iqi[ša ... ab]out whom the king, my lord, wr[ote to me]: "Give him prov[isions!" — now then I have given to him] four oxen [...], [x] hundred (homers) of barley [...], [x hect]ares of land i[n ...] |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1'1'–r 4'4' | [The re]st of [..., everything] that the king, [my lor]d, commanded, [is ... at] my disposal. |
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 EN-ia] | |
| 4 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ {1}EN—BA-[ša₂ x x x] | |
| 5 | ⸢ša\y⸣ LUGAL be-li₂ ⸢iš⸣-[pur-an-ni] | |
| 6 | ⸢ma⸣-[a] ša\y-aṣ\d-⸢bit⸣-[su an-nu-rig] | |
| 7 | [o] 04 GUD.NITA₂-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x] | |
| 8 | [x]-me {⸢še}PAD\m⸣-MEŠ [x x] | |
| 9 | [x] ⸢ANŠE⸣ A.ŠA₃ ⸢ina⸣ [x x x] | |
| 10 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ pa ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [re]-⸢eh-ti⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2' | [am—mar] ša\y LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[li₂] | |
| 3' | ⸢iq⸣-bu-u-ni [x x] | |
| 4' | [ina] ⸢pa⸣-na-tu₂-u-a [šu-u] | |
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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