ABL 0420 (P334288)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0420 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334288 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-bani. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:10] o 44–o 1010 | Aššur-šumi-ke'in called me to help and loaded the bull colossi on the boats, but the boats could not carry the load (and sank). |
| Obverse [10:17] o 1111– | Now, although it cost me a great trouble, I have now hauled them up again. |
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}aš-šur—ba-ni | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {1}aš-šur—MU—ki-in | |
| 5 | ik\y-ta-at-ra-an-ni | |
| 6 | {na₄}{d}ALAD.{d}LAMA | |
| 7 | ina ŠA₃-bi {giš}MA₂-MEŠ | |
| 8 | u₂-sa-ar-ki-pi | |
| 9 | {giš}MA₂-MEŠ la e-mu-qa-ši-na | |
| 10 | la in-tu-ha | |
| 11 | a-ka-ni da-ʾa-tu₂ | |
| 12 | a-bu-tu o | |
| 13 | e-ta-ap-ša₂-ni-ma | |
| r | ||
| 1 | u₂-ma-a | |
| 2 | u₂-sa-hi-ir | |
| 3 | u₂-se-li-a | |
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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