ABL 0166 (P334112)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0166 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334112 |
| 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/saa16 · 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: your servant Ibašši-ilu, the ... |
| Obverse [3:10] o 44– | My brother has died on account of the lawsuit for which I appealed to your father, and my son is being slaughtered because of it. |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44 | The king is the bulwark of the [w]eak one. Let the king ask: I am about to be killed, lost, roaming about. |
| Reverse [4:6] r 55–r 66 | I have found rest in the reign of the king. May the king save me! |
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}I₃.GAL₂—DINGIR | |
| 3 | {lu₂}pa-hi-zu | |
| 4 | DUG₄.DUG₄-ME ša a-hur-u-ni | |
| 5 | a-na AD-ka aq-bu-u-ni | |
| 6 | ŠEŠ-u-a ina UGU-hi | |
| 7 | de-e-ke | |
| 8 | DUMU-a.a ina pi-i-šu₂ | |
| 9 | ṭa-bi-ih | |
| r | ||
| 1 | BAD₃ [ma]-ki-i LUGAL | |
| 2 | LUGAL liš-al | |
| 3 | a-na-ku ša du-a-ki | |
| 4 | hal-qa-ku ad-du-al | |
| 5 | ina ŠA₃-bi LUGAL at-[te]-ʾi-la | |
| 6 | LUGAL lu-še-zib-an-ni | |
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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