ABL 0343 (P334223)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0343 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334223 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, my lord: your servant Zabayu, the commander of the fort Appina. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:8] o 66–o 88 | The fort and the servants of the king, my lord, are well. |
| Obverse [8:13] o 99–o 1313 | The eunuch who is overseer of the household o[f] Suitkâ [the ci]ty [lord], has fled and [com]e [to] Appina. Deserters [......] |
| Reverse [0:7] r 1'1'–r 7'7' | I sent [... to the Pala]ce [on the 1]st of Marchesvan (VIII); a deserter is (coming) with him. The messengers accompanying him have come, but up to now he himself has not come. |
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}za-ba-a.a | |
| 3 | {lu₂vy}GAL—{uru}HAL.ṢU {lu₂vy}GAL—{uru}HAL.ṢU | |
| 4 | ša\m {uru}ap-pi-na | |
| 5 | lu DI\d-mu a-na LUGAL\d EN-ia₂ | |
| 6 | DI\d-mu a-na {uru}HAL.ṢU | |
| 7 | DI\d-mu a-na {lu₂vy}ARAD-MEŠ | |
| 8 | ša\m LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 9 | {lu₂vy}SAG {lu₂vy}ša₂—UGU—E₂ | |
| 10 | ⸢ša⸣ {1}su-it-ka-a | |
| 11 | {[lu₂v}EN]—⸢URU⸣ {[lu₂v}EN]—⸢URU⸣ ih-tal-qa | |
| 12 | [a-na] {⸢uru⸣}ap-pi-na | |
| 13 | [it-tal]-⸢ka⸣ {lu₂vy}ma-aq-tu-tu₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [ina SAG] ⸢ITI⸣ ša\m {⸢iti}APIN⸣ | |
| 2' | [a-na E₂].⸢GAL⸣ a-sa-par | |
| 3' | {[lu₂vy]}ma-aq\t-tu₂ ina ŠU.2-šu₂ | |
| 4' | {[lu₂vy]}A—šip-ri-MEŠ\m {[lu₂vy]}A—šip-ri-MEŠ\m | |
| 5' | ša\m i-si-šu₂ it-tal-ku-nu | |
| 6' | šu-u₂ a-da\m-kan-ni | |
| 7' | la il-li-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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