ABL 0479 (P334327)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0479 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334327 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, [my] lord: your servant, Nabû-[...]. Good health to the king. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [6:12] o 77–o 1212 | I turned in a report to the king, my lord, and he sent me to the Inner City for the sacrifices. |
| Obverse [12:26] o 1313– | (Now) the [...] has written: "Come, the work is hard for us." I have appointed here two servants of the king who are acceptable to me. If the king, my lord, comm[ands ...]. |
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}{d}PA—[x x] | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 6 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | ṭe₃-e-mu | |
| 8 | ina pa-an LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 9 | u₂-te-re | |
| 10 | ina UGU {udu}SISKUR-MEŠ | |
| 11 | a-na {uru}ŠA₃—URU | |
| 12 | is-⸢sa⸣-ap-⸢ra⸣-an-ni | |
| 13 | {⸢lu₂⸣}[x] ⸢x⸣ [x] | |
| 14 | is-sap-ra | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ma-a al-ka | |
| 2 | dul-lu da-an | |
| 3 | ina UGU-hi-ni | |
| 4 | 02 {lu₂}ARAD-MEŠ-ni | |
| 5 | ša LUGAL | |
| 6 | ša₂ a-na a-a-ši | |
| 7 | dam-qu-u-ni | |
| 8 | ha-an-na-ka | |
| 9 | ap-ti-qi-di | |
| 10 | šum₂-mu LUGAL | |
| 11 | ⸢be⸣-li₂ ⸢i-qa⸣-[bi] | |
| 12 | [x x x x x] | |
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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