ABL 0234 (P334173)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0234 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334173 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | [To the king], my lord: [your servant Ašš]ur-bani. [Good health to] the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [2:6] o 33–o 66 | [As to ...... the me]rchants [...... |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1'1'–r 2'2' | Calah [...... in] my hand [...... the king, my lo]rd will kill 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] EN-ia | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}aš]-⸢šur⸣—ba-ni | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na] LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | [ina UGU {1}x x x]-a-ti\t | |
| 5 | [x x x x x {lu₂v]}⸢DAM⸣.QAR-MEŠ | |
| 6 | [x x x x x x x x x]-a | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x] {⸢uru}kal-ha⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x ina] qa-ti\t-ia | |
| 3' | [x x x LUGAL be]-li₂ i-du-ka-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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