ABL 0374 (P334250)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0374 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334250 |
| 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/saa13 · 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-šumu-iddina. The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88 | 14 Kushite horses from the prefects; |
| Obverse [8:10] o 99–o 1010 | 4 Kushite horses from the horse trainers of the ...s: |
| Obverse [10:15] o 1111– | 18 Kushite horses in all have come in today. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | 28th day. |
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}{d}PA—MU—AŠ | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | a—dan-niš a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 6 | be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | 14 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ {kur}ku-sa-a-a | |
| 8 | ša {lu₂v}GAR-nu-MEŠ | |
| 9 | 04 KUR-MEŠ ku-sa-a-a | |
| 10 | ša {lu₂v}{giš}GIGIR-MEŠ ša i-ku-te | |
| 11 | PAB 18 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 12 | ku-sa-a-a | |
| 13 | UD-mu an-ni-u | |
| 14 | e-tar-bu-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | UD 28 | |
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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