ABL 0309 (P334197)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0309 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334197 |
| 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 Bel-emuranni. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | As to the rumour about which the king, my lord, wrote me, I have sent out scouts but they have not yet come back. |
| Obverse [7:11] o 88–o 1111 | While waiting for them, [I am submitting] the ki[ng, my lord], this report. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | They should give it and b[ring it to me]. |
| Reverse [2:6] r 3'3'–r 6'6' | Or if it is not to be ... and there happens to be a man in his company he can dispense with, let them give it to him, and let him bring it. |
| Reverse [6:8] r 77–r 8'8' | A cavalryman should be there to guard him. |
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}EN—IGI.LAL-ni | |
| 3 | lu DI\d-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | ina UGU li\d-ša₂-ni ša\d LUGAL | |
| 5 | be-li₂ iš-pu-ra\t-an-ni | |
| 6 | a-sap-ra\t {lu₂v}da-a.a-li | |
| 7 | u₂-di\d-ni la il-la-ku-u-ni | |
| 8 | ina pa-an-šu₂-nu a-da-gal | |
| 9 | a-ka-an-ni ṭe₃-e-mu | |
| 10 | a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia₂ u₂-ta-ra] | |
| 11 | ⸢a-pa⸣-[x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x x x x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | lid-di\d-nu lu-⸢bi⸣-[lu-ni] | |
| 3' | u₂-la-a la-a ša\dm du-⸢lu⸣-[x] | |
| 4' | ši-i LU₂ ut-ru i-ba-⸢ši⸣ | |
| 5' | is-si-šu₂ i-za-za | |
| 6' | lid-di\d-nu-niš-šu₂ lu-bi-la | |
| 7 | ša\dm—{lu₂v}BAD-HAL li\d-zi-zi | |
| 8' | EN.NUN\dm-šu₂ li\d-ṣur | |
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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