ABL 0431 (P334296)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0431 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334296 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, my lord: your servant Ašipâ. The best of health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | The forts and the land of the king, my lord, are well. |
| Obverse [6:9] o 77–o 99 | Last year, the king, my lord, told me: "[S]end me red wool!" |
| Obverse [9:11] o 1010–o 1111 | Now then Metu[nu ......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | have been brought [to me]. |
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\t EN-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}a-ši-pa-a | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL\t | |
| 4 | EN-ia a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | DI-mu a-na {uru}bi-rat | |
| 6 | a-na KUR ša\dm LUGAL\d EN-ia | |
| 7 | ina ša₂-daq₃-di-iš\d | |
| 8 | LUGAL be-li₂ iq-ṭi-bi-a | |
| 9 | ma-a {sig₂t}tab-ri-bu\p | |
| 10 | [še]-bi-la an-nu-⸢rig⸣ | |
| 11 | {1}me-tu-[nu x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 12 | [x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 3 | [o] na-ṣu-[u-ni] | |
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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