ABL 0509 (P334350)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0509 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334350 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [To] the king, my lord: your ser[vant] Ašipâ. The bes[t] of health to the king, my lo[rd]! |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | The forts and the land of the king, my [lo]rd, are well. |
| Obverse [6:12] o 77–o 1212 | (Regarding) these later people from Abâ whom they are now bringing out, I have, [firs]tly, left [x] men carrying ... [wi]th the prostitutes. |
| Obverse [12:15] o 1313–o 1515 | [I have assigned x] men as scouts to guard the pass of [Ab]â above them. |
| Obverse [15:17] o 1616–o 1717 | [...] the town at the foot [......] |
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}a-ši-pa-a | |
| 3 | ⸢lu⸣ DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | ⸢EN⸣-ia a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | ⸢DI⸣-mu a-na {uru}bi-rat | |
| 6 | ⸢a⸣-na KUR ša\dm LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-ia | |
| 7 | UN-MEŠ an-nu-te {⸢uru⸣}a-ba-a.a | |
| 8 | ur-ki-u₂-te ša\dm u₂-ma-⸢a⸣ | |
| 9 | u₂-še-ṣu-u-ni a-na-ku [o] | |
| 10 | [x] {⸢lu₂⸣}ERIM-MEŠ na-ši e-[x x] | |
| 11 | [pa]-⸢an⸣ {mi₂}ha-ri-ma-te [o] | |
| 12 | [is]-⸢se⸣-niš ur-ta-me [o] | |
| 13 | [x] {⸢lu₂⸣}ERIM-MEŠ {lu₂}da-a.a-li [o] | |
| 14 | [a-na] ma-ṣar-te ša\dm ne₂-ri-⸢bi⸣ | |
| 15 | {[uru}a-ba]-a ša\m ina re-šu-šu-⸢nu⸣ | |
| 16 | [x x x x] URU ina ⸢GIR₃.2 [x x] | |
| 17 | [x x 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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