ABL 0179 (P334124)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0179 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334124 |
| 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 ki]ng, my lord: your [servant] Amar-ili. [Good he]alth to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:11] o 44–o 1111 | As to the house of Mardû of which the king my lord told (me): "You and the governor of Arbela, divide it evenly between the sons of Mardû and give (each his share)!" |
| Obverse [11:19] o 1212– | We did indeed find a writing-board inside (the house), [just as the king my lord had w]ritten; I sealed it and put it inside (...). |
| Reverse [6:9] r 77–r 99 | Now I am sending it to the king, my lord. What are the king my lord's instructions? |
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⸣ EN-ia | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ {1}a-mar—DINGIR | |
| 3 | [lu DI]-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | ina UGU E₂ {1}mar-du-u | |
| 5 | ša LUGAL EN iq-bu-u-ni | |
| 6 | ma-a at-ta {lu₂vy}EN.NAM | |
| 7 | ša {uru}arba-il₃ | |
| 8 | E₂ ki-i a-hi-iš | |
| 9 | bir-ti\t DUMU-MEŠ | |
| 10 | {1}mar-du-u | |
| 11 | [zu]-za ⸢di-na⸣ | |
| 12 | [ki-i ša LUGAL EN] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢iš-pur-u⸣-[ni] | |
| 2 | {giš}le-ʾu | |
| 3 | i-ba\t-aš₂-ši | |
| 4 | ina ŠA₃-bi ne₂-ta-mar | |
| 5 | ak\d-ta-nak | |
| 6 | ina ŠA₃-bi a-sa-kan | |
| 7 | u₂-ma-a ina pa-an | |
| 8 | LUGAL EN-ia a-sap-ra | |
| 9 | mi₃-nu ša\dm LUGAL\d | |
| 10 | be-li i-qab-bu-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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