ABL 0522 (P334357)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0522 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334357 |
| 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 servant Adad-ibni. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:9] o 55–o 99 | A Babylonian has come to me, saying: "I have things to say; let them take me to the Palace" — |
| Obverse [9:15] o 1010– | now then I am sending him to the king, my lord; let the king, my lord, ask him what he has to say. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | I sent him to the king, my lord, on the 28th from Zaddi. |
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}{d}IM—DU₃ | |
| 3 | lu šul-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | be-li₂-ia | |
| 5 | DUMU—KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} DUMU—KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} | |
| 6 | šu-u ina UGU-hi-ia | |
| 7 | it-tal-ka ma-a di-bi | |
| 8 | ina KA-ia ma-a ina E₂.GAL | |
| 9 | lu-bi-lu-u-ni | |
| 10 | u₂-ma-a an-nu-rig | |
| 11 | ina pa-an LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 12 | u₂-se-bi-la-šu | |
| 13 | LUGAL be-li₂ liš-al-šu | |
| 14 | mi₃-nu ša di-bi-šu₂-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | UD 28-KAM TA@v\m ŠA₃ | |
| 2 | {uru}za-ad-di | |
| 3 | ina pa-an LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | u₂-se-bi-la-šu | |
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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