ABL 0411 (P334282)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0411 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334282 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Abat-šarri-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | As to the Chaldean Nabû-ereš about whom the king, my lord, wrote me: "He should be watched secretly" — |
| Obverse [8:15] o 99– | the very moment the king, my lord, wrote me, I sent (word), and they have been watching him secretly. |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | Now then he has set out and is on his way, going to the Palace to greet (the king), as he says. |
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\d EN-a | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}a-bat—MAN—PAB | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL\d EN-a | |
| 4 | ina UGU {1}{d}PA—KAM-eš | |
| 5 | {lu₂v}kal-da-a.a | |
| 6 | ša\y LUGAL\d be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 7 | ma-a šap-li\y qa-ti\t | |
| 8 | ma-ṣar-tu₂-šu₂ li\y-ṣu-ru | |
| 9 | TA@v\m mar LUGAL\d be-li₂ | |
| 10 | iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 11 | a-sa-par ma-ṣar-tu₂-šu₂ | |
| 12 | šap-la qa-ti\t | |
| b.e. | ||
| 13 | it-ta-aṣ-ru | |
| r | ||
| 1 | u₂-ma-a | |
| 2 | an-nu-ri | |
| 3 | u₂-tam-me-ša₂ | |
| 4 | il-la-ka | |
| 5 | ma-a a-na šul-me | |
| 6 | ina E₂.GAL al\t-lak | |
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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