ABL 0181 (P334126)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0181 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334126 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To the king, our lord: your servants Marduk-šumu-uṣur, Naṣiru and Aqaraya. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, our lord! |
| Obverse [7:19] o 88– | We have rites to perform in the qirsu. Let the king, our lord, give an order to Sasî (that) they should let us go. Nobody will release us, and we cannot go out. |
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-ni | |
| 2 | ARAD-MEŠ-ka | |
| 3 | {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—MU—PAB | |
| 4 | {1}na-ṣi-ru {1}a-qar-a.a | |
| 5 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL EN-ni | |
| 7 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 8 | dul-li-ni | |
| 9 | ina ŠA₃-bi qi-ir-si | |
| 10 | i-ba-aš₂-ši | |
| 11 | LUGAL EN-ni | |
| 12 | a-na {1}sa-si-⸢i⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ṭe₃-e-mu | |
| 2 | liš-ku-un | |
| 3 | lu-⸢še-ṣu⸣-na-ši | |
| 4 | me-me-ni | |
| 5 | la u₂-ram-ma-na-ši | |
| 6 | la nu-ṣa | |
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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