ABL 0388 (P334264)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0388 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334264 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, my lord: your servant Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, my lord! The fort is well. |
| Obverse [4:17] o 55– | Concerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Send 50 Gurreans and 50 Itu'eans to Sabhanu" — I sent them, but the men of the chief cupbearer who are [...] there ref[used] to le[t them in]. Let them writ[e me w]hat [the king] my lord's or[ders are]. |
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}MAN—IGI.LAL-an-ni | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | DI-mu a-na {uru}HAL.ṢU | |
| 5 | ša\dy LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 6 | ma\p-a 50 {lu₂v}gur-ra-a.a | |
| 7 | 50 {lu₂v}i-tu-ʾa-a.a | |
| 8 | ina {uru}sa-ba-ha-ni | |
| 9 | šup\y-ru\y a-sap-ra\t | |
| 10 | {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ ša\d {lu₂v}GAL—KAŠ.LUL {lu₂v}GAL—KAŠ.LUL | |
| 11 | ša\d ina ŠA₃-[bi x x x] | |
| 12 | la i-⸢ma⸣-[gu-ru] | |
| 13 | la\p u₂-⸢še⸣-[ri-bu-šu₂-nu] | |
| 14 | ⸢mi⸣-nu [ša LUGAL] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | be-li₂ i-[qab-bu-ni] | |
| 2 | liš-pa-⸢ru⸣-[u-ni] | |
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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