ABL 0218 (P334160)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0218 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334160 |
| 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 king, my lord: your servant Nergal-balliṭ. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:10] o 44–o 1010 | The Philistines whom the king my lord formed into a cohort and gave me refuse to stay with me; [they ......] in the village of Luqaše [near] Arbela [...... |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | ......] sta[ying ...]. Now [......] after [...]. |
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\td LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}U.GUR—bal\d-liṭ | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na\td LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {kur}pi-lis-ta-a.a | |
| 5 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 6 | ki-iṣ-ru ik\d-ṣur-u-ni | |
| 7 | i-di-na\td-an-ni | |
| 8 | ⸢la i⸣-ma-gur₂ ina IGI-ia | |
| 9 | [la i]-⸢za⸣-zu\t ina {uru}lu-qa-še | |
| 10 | [ša qa-ni] {uru}arba-il₃ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | kam-mu-[su o] | |
| 2' | u₂-ma-a ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 3' | i—da\d-te i—da\d-te [x x x] | |
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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