ABL 0193 (P334138)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0193 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334138 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, [my] lord: your servant Na'di-ilu. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:14] o 55– | As to Šimkaya, the axe [m]aker from Damascus whom [the king], my lord, wrote me about, I am herewith sending him to the king, my [lo]rd, in the charge of my messenger. |
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}I—DINGIR | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | EN-ia | |
| 5 | ina ⸢UGU⸣ {1}ši-im-ka-ia | |
| 6 | {lu₂vy}⸢NAGAR⸣—pa-⸢a⸣-ši {lu₂vy}⸢NAGAR⸣—pa-⸢a⸣-ši | |
| 7 | {uru}⸢di⸣-maš-qa-a.a | |
| 8 | ša\dy [LUGAL] be-li₂ | |
| 9 | ⸢iš-pur-an⸣-ni | |
| 10 | ⸢an-nu-rig⸣ | |
| 11 | ina ŠU.2 {lu₂vy}A—KIN-ia {lu₂vy}A—KIN-ia | |
| 12 | [ina] pa-an LUGAL | |
| 13 | ⸢EN⸣-ia | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢u₂⸣-se-bi-la-šu₂ | |
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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