ABL 0398 (P334273)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0398 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334273 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [To] the king, m[y] lord: your [servant] Ṭab-ṣill-E[šarra]. Good health to the king, [my] lord! May Aššur and Mullissu bless the king, [my lord]! |
| Obverse [4:7] o 55–o 77 | As to the logs which the king, my lord, wrote me about: "Send (word) that they be towed here," |
| Obverse [7:9] o 88–o 99 | even before the king, my lord, wr[ote to me], I assigned [...... |
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 EN-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-ka {1}DUG₃.GA—ṣil\m—⸢E₂⸣.[ŠAR₂.RA] | |
| 3 | ⸢lu DI⸣-mu a-na\t LUGAL EN-[ia] | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}NIN.LIL₂ a-na\t LUGAL [EN-ia] | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu ina UGU {giš}⸢UR₃⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 6 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš\t-pur-an-[ni] | |
| 7 | ma-a šu-pur liš-da-du-[u-ni] | |
| 8 | a-du la-a LUGAL be-li₂ iš-[pur-an-ni] | |
| 9 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ u₂-ta-si-[ik] | |
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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