ABL 0487 (P334334)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0487 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334334 |
| 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] Ṭab-šar-[Aššur]. [Good health] to the king, [my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | [As to the g]ate of the bathroom [of] the big hilānu palace of which the king, [my lord], wrote to me, I have just got hold of the [... and am herewith sending them] to the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [7:9] o 88–o 99 | The old-fashioned razor which stood [...], even if [......], will be removed [from] the gate. |
| Obverse [9:12] o 1010–o 1212 | As to [the ... of] the tower, with reed [...... |
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⸣—IM—[aš-šur] | |
| 3 | [lu-u DI-mu] a-na LUGAL [EN-ia] | |
| 4 | [ina UGU] ⸢KA₂⸣ ša\d E₂—ra-⸢ma⸣-[ki] E₂—ra-⸢ma⸣-[ki] | |
| 5 | [ša] E₂—hi-la-ni E₂—hi-la-ni dan-nu ša ⸢LUGAL\d⸣ [be-li₂] | |
| 6 | ⸢iš⸣-pur-an-ni an-nu-rig ⸢tim⸣-[me x x] | |
| 7 | ⸢u₂⸣-ṣa-bit ina UGU LUGAL EN-ia [u₂-se-bi-la] | |
| 8 | ⸢na⸣-ga-lu-bu pa-ni-u ša ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 9 | [o] ⸢i⸣-za-zu-ni u₃ šum₂-mu [x x x x] | |
| 10 | ⸢KA₂⸣ i-na-šu-ru ina UGU ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 11 | [x] ⸢i⸣-si-ti\t ina ŠA₃ {gi}AMBAR ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 12 | [x x x x]-⸢tu⸣ ša\d ⸢i⸣-[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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