ABL 0271 (P334189)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0271 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334189 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, [my] lord: your servant Nabû-ušabši, (and) Iglî. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:9] o 77–o 99 | As to the winged hoof about which the king, my lord, wrote me: "Why is it not finished?" — |
| Obverse [9:13] o 1010– | had it been at the disposal of the Assyrians, we would have retrieved it from them and quick[ly fin]ished it! |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | [...] the Babylonians [... have been re]trieving it |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | I shall bring it to the king, 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 LUGAL be-li₂-[ia₂] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}PA—GAL₂-ši | |
| 3 | {1}ig-li-i | |
| 4 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 5 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 6 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | ina UGU ṣu-pur a-kap-pi | |
| 8 | ša LUGAL EN iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 9 | ma-a a-ta-a la ga-mi₃-ri | |
| 10 | lu ina IGI {lu₂v}aš-šur-a.a šu-u-tu₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ni-iš-luh-šu-nu | |
| 2 | ar₂-⸢hiš⸣ [ni]-⸢ig⸣-mu-ru | |
| 3 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x] DUMU-MEŠ—KA₂.DINGIR DUMU-MEŠ—KA₂.DINGIR | |
| 4 | ⸢x⸣+[x x]-⸢luh⸣-u-ni | |
| 5 | ud [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni | |
| 6 | nin [x x x] pi [x] | |
| 7 | la [x x x x x x] | |
| 8 | a [x x x x x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | ina UGU LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ u₂-bal-ši | |
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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