ABL 0247 (P334182)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0247 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334182 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-belu-da''in. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | The forts and the [ga]rrison of the king, my lord, are well. |
| Obverse [6:9] o 77–o 99 | The work on the fort [i]n the centre of the town [...]. Two men [......] |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1'1'–r 4'4' | [...... the ... of] the king [ke]ep [the watch]. The Chaldeans are building their houses. |
| Reverse [4:6] r 5'5'–r 6'6' | On the 20th of Elul (VI) I started working on the bricks. |
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\t LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}aš-šur—EN—KALAG-in | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu\p a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | a-na\t {uru}bi-ra-a-te | |
| 5 | a-na\t ⸢ma⸣-ṣar-te | |
| 6 | ša\tdm LUGAL EN-ia DI-mu\p | |
| 7 | ⸢dul⸣-lu ša\tdm {uru}HAL.ṢU | |
| 8 | [ša ina] ⸢ŠA₃⸣ MURUB₄ URU | |
| 9 | [x x x] 02 LU₂\p | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 2' | [EN.NUN i-na]-⸢ṣu⸣-ru | |
| 3' | {lu₂vy}kal-da\t-a.a | |
| 4' | E₂-MEŠ-šu₂\d-nu i-ra-ṣi-pu\p | |
| 5' | UD 20-KAM₂ ša\td {itim}KIN\tm | |
| 6' | ina UGU SIG₄\p-MEŠ\m | |
| 7' | u₂\m-ta-me-di | |
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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