ABL 0483 (P334331)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0483 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334331 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-ṣill-Ešarra. Good health to the king, my lord! May Aššur and Mullissu bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:11] o 66–o 1111 | [We] overturned the ot[her] panther on the 1[st] and placed it on its face; twenty courses of bricks have been put under it; [its] feet are toward the seat of Lord-of-the-Crown. |
| Obverse [11:20] o 1212– | [x] courses of bricks of the ziggurat have been laid. On the 6th they started building the boat[s], and they are building them (now). |
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—GIŠ].MI—E₂.ŠAR₂.[RA] | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}NIN.LIL₂ a-na LUGAL EN-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 5 | ⸢lik⸣-ru\dp-bu\t | |
| 6 | UD 01-[KAM₂] {⸢d⸣}nam-ru\dp | |
| 7 | [nu]-⸢sa⸣-bal-kit i-na UGU [o] | |
| 8 | [pa]-⸢ni⸣-šu ni-ik-ta\p-⸢ra⸣-ra | |
| 9 | 20 ti\t-ik-pi ina KI.⸢TA-šu⸣ | |
| 10 | [it]-ta\p-al-ku GIR₃.2-MEŠ-[šu] | |
| 11 | [i]-⸢na⸣ pu-tu šub-ti\t ša₂ {⸢d}EN—AGA⸣ | |
| 12 | [x] 02 ti\t-ik-pi ša si-qur-[ri]-⸢te⸣ | |
| 13 | ka-ar-ru\d | |
| 14 | UD 06-KAM₂ ina UGU {giš}MA₂-[MEŠ] | |
| 15 | e-pa-a-še iq\y-ṭar-bu\t | |
| 16 | e-pu\t-šu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x] | |
| 2 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x]-e\d | |
| 3 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x]-du | |
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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