ABL 0491 (P334338)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0491 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334338 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [T]o the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-reṣuwa. [Good] health to the king, [my] lo[rd]! |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | [As t]o the houses of the town [...] in the environs of Ku[mme], |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | they are [...] persons [...] |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88 | [... o]f Ṭ[urušpâ] |
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\m be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ⸢ARAD⸣-ka {1}aš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a | |
| 3 | [lu] DI-mu\p a-na LUGAL\m be-[li₂-ia₂] | |
| 4 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ E₂-MEŠ ša\d {uru}⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 5 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ ša\p qa-an-ni {uru}ku-[um-me] | |
| 6 | [x] {lu₂v}ZI\p-ME šu-nu [x x] | |
| 7 | [x x] ⸢ša⸣ {uru}⸢ṭu⸣-[ur-uš-pa-a] | |
| 8 | [x x x]+⸢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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