ABL 0397 (P334272)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0397 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334272 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-ṣill-Ešarra. Ešarra is well, the temples are well, the Inner City is well, Assyria is well, may the king my lord be well! May Aššur and Mullissu bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [8:10] o 99–o 1010 | As to the logs which the king wr[ote me about ......] |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1'1'–r 5'5' | [..... are] very [...], im[possible] to count. There are many logs! The king, my lord, can be glad. |
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}DUG₃.GA—ṣil\m—E₂.ŠAR₂.RA | |
| 3 | DI-mu a-na\t E₂.ŠAR₂.RA{ki} | |
| 4 | DI-mu a-na\t E₂.KUR-MEŠ | |
| 5 | DI-mu a-na\t {uru}ŠA₃—URU | |
| 6 | DI-mu a-na\t KUR—aš-šur{ki} KUR—aš-šur{ki} KUR—aš-šur{ki} | |
| 7 | lu DI-mu a-na\t LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 8 | aš-šur {d}NIN.LIL₂ a-na\t LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 9 | lik-ru-bu ina UGU {giš}UR₃-MEŠ | |
| 10 | ša LUGAL ⸢EN⸣ [iš-pur-an-ni] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x] a—dan-niš | |
| 3' | ⸢la⸣ [il-lak a]-na\t ma-ne₂-e | |
| 4' | ma-a-du {giš}UR₃-MEŠ | |
| 5' | lib-bu ša LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 6' | lu-u DUG₃.GA | |
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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