ABL 0490 (P334337)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0490 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334337 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | On the third day, 470 beams were available on the river bank. |
| Obverse [2:11] o 33– | 100 men of the Ukkeans, 30 men of Ariye, 30 men of Arizâ, in all 60 men of the Kummeans, all together 160 men are transporting the beam[s] to Ura with Aššur-reṣuwa. |
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 | 04 me 70 {giš}UR₃-MEŠ\m | |
| 2 | UD 03-KAM₂ ina UGU ID₂\t qur-bu\t | |
| 3 | 01 me {lu₂}ERIM-MEŠ\m ša\y {kur}u₂-ka-a.a | |
| 4 | 30 ša\ydp {1}a-ri-e | |
| 5 | 30 ša\ydp {1}u₂-ri-za-a | |
| b.e. | ||
| 6 | PAB 60 ERIM-MEŠ\m ša\ydp {uru}ku-ma-a.a | |
| r | ||
| 1 | PAB 01 me 60 ERIM-MEŠ | |
| 2 | TA@v\m {1}aš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a | |
| 3 | ina ŠA₃ {uru}u₂-ra\yd | |
| 4 | {⸢giš}UR₃⸣-[MEŠ] i-za-bi-lu | |
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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