ABL 0488 (P334335)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0488 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334335 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-šar-Aššur. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:8] o 55–o 88 | [On the ...th ...] brought me [a letter] from Aššur-reṣuwa in which it was written [as follow]s: "[The king of] Urarṭu is in the city of ...arda; the [...]s of [......" |
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] be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}DUG₃—IM—aš-šur | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu] a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | [e-gir₂-tu₂] ⸢ša\d⸣ {1}aš-šur—re\d-ṣu-u-a | |
| 5 | [UD-x-KAM] ina UGU-hi-ia na-ṣa | |
| 6 | [ki-i an-ni]-⸢i⸣ ina ŠA₃-bi ša₂-ṭi-ir | |
| 7 | [ma-a LUGAL {kur]}URI-a.a ina ŠA₃ {uru}⸢x-x⸣-ar-da\d šu₂-u | |
| 8 | [x x x x]-MEŠ ⸢ša\d⸣ [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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