ABL 0313 (P334201)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0313 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334201 |
| 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/saa15 · 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 Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, my lord! Babylon, Borsippa, [and] all the [...] civilians are well. [The king, my lord], can be glad. |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | [Concerning the ... ab]out which the king, my lord, [wrote to me] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [I shall wr]ite [...]. |
| Reverse [1:5] r 2'2'–r 5'5' | [... in K]iš. It is a matter of the k[ing] and the palace, that is why I wrote this to the Palace. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | I sent the letter to the Palace on the 25th of Tishri (VII). |
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\d be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}LUGAL\d—e-mur-an-ni | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL\d be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | [o] DI-mu a-na TIN.TIR{ki} BAR₂.SIPA{ki} | |
| 5 | [x x x] ⸢ZI⸣-MEŠ <gab>-bi ŠA₃-bi | |
| 6 | [ša LUGAL be-li₂-ia] ⸢lu⸣-u DUG₃.GA-šu₂ | |
| 7 | [ina UGU x x x x] ⸢ša⸣ MAN be-li₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [a]-⸢šap⸣-pa-ra [x x x] | |
| 2' | [ina] ⸢kiš⸣{ki} šu-tu ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 3' | ⸢ša⸣ E₂.⸢GAL⸣ ina UGU-hi | |
| 4' | šu-u₂\m an-ni-iu-u₂ | |
| 5' | a-na E₂.GAL as\d-sap-ra | |
| 6' | UD 25-KAM ša\d {⸢itim⸣}DUL i-gir₂-te | |
| 7' | a-na E₂.GAL us-se-bi-la | |
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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