ABL 0316 (P334204)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0316 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334204 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the kin]g, my lord: [your servant] Šarru-emuranni. [Good hea]lth to the king, my [lord]! |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44–o 99 | Bel-iqiša [brought in] his [hand]s (a letter sealed with) the golden [signet ring] of the king, saying: "If you [are] at ease, [co]me!" |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | [No]w then |
| Reverse [2:5] r 3'3'–r 5'5' | [I have ap]pointed [a gu]ard [wi]th him, [and c]ome. |
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-ia | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka] {1}MAN—IGI.LAL-an-ni | |
| 3 | [lu DI]-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | [be-li₂]-⸢ia⸣ {1}EN—BA\t-ša₂ | |
| 5 | [un-qu] KUG.GI LUGAL | |
| 6 | [ina ŠU].2-šu₂ | |
| 7 | [na-ṣa] ma-a šum-ma | |
| 8 | [ŠA₃]-⸢ka⸣ DUG₃.GA-ka | |
| 9 | [al]-ka | |
| 10 | [an]-⸢nu⸣-rig | |
| 11 | [x x] ⸢x⸣ a | |
| b.e. | ||
| 12 | [x x]-⸢i⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] | |
| 3' | {[lu₂v}ša₂]—⸢EN.NUN⸣ [is]-⸢se⸣-e-šu₂ | |
| 4' | [ap]-⸢te⸣-qi-di | |
| 5' | [at]-tal-ka | |
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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