ABL 0235 (P334174)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0235 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334174 |
| 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 Vizier, my lord: [your servant] Aššur-bani. [Good health] to the Vizier, my lord. |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44–o 99 | They have written to me [from the Palace]: "[......] Ziziru [... have ch]ased him [......] Calah [......] the moat [......] 120 [...... |
| Reverse [1:5] r 2'2'–r 5'5' | [Perhaps my lo]rd would say: "Why did you not write?" I have now written to the Vizier, my lord. |
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⸣ {lu₂v}SUKKAL EN-ia | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka] {1}aš-šur—ba-ni | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a]-na {lu₂v}SUKKAL ⸢EN⸣-ia | |
| 4 | [TA@v E₂.GAL] ⸢i⸣-sa-pa-ru-u-ni | |
| 5 | [ma-a x x x {1}zi-zi-ru | |
| 6 | [x x uk-ta]-šid-du-u₂-šu₂ | |
| 7 | [x x x x] {uru}kal-ha | |
| 8 | [x x x x] {⸢id₂⸣}hi-ri-te | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x] 01 me⸣ 20 | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x] tu₂ | |
| 2' | [is—su-ri be]-⸢li₂⸣ i-⸢qa⸣-bi | |
| 3' | [ma-a a]-ta-a la taš-pu-ra | |
| 4' | [u₂-ma-a an]-nu-rig | |
| 5' | [a-na] {lu₂v}SUKKAL EN-ia | |
| 6' | [a]-sa-pa-ra | |
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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