ABL 0389 (P334265)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0389 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334265 |
| 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/saa16 · 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 Bel-iqiša. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk very greatly bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [6:14] o 77– | Concerning the palace of the queen in Kilizi which the king, my lord, entrusted to me, I have demolished the house, the space for the foundations is open, and bricks have been stocked up for laying the foundations. |
| Reverse [1:6] r 22–r 66 | If the king, my lord, commands, the chief of the master builders may be ordered to come and lay the foundations. |
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}EN—BA-ša₂ | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {d}AG u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia a—dan-niš | |
| 6 | a—dan-niš lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | ina UGU-hi E₂ MI₂—E₂.GAL MI₂—E₂.GAL | |
| 8 | ša ina {uru}kal₃-zi | |
| 9 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ ip-qi-da-ni-ni | |
| 10 | E₂ up-ta-ṭi-ir | |
| 11 | E₂ uš-še pa-te | |
| 12 | uš-še a-na ka-ra-ri | |
| r | ||
| 1 | SIG₄-MEŠ kar-mat | |
| 2 | šum-ma LUGAL be-li₂ i-qab-bi | |
| 3 | a-na {lu₂v}GAL—TIN-MEŠ {lu₂v}GAL—TIN-MEŠ | |
| 4 | ṭe₃-e-mu liš-ku-nu | |
| 5 | lil-li-ka uš-še | |
| 6 | li-ik-ru-ra | |
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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