ABL 0528 (P334360)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0528 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334360 |
| 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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Sîn-ila'i. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:11] o 44–o 1111 | Concerning the cult centres which the king, my lord, entrusted to me, saying: "Without you they should do nothing! If a messenger passes by, they must not pass by without your permission; and if the mayor[s ...]" — |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | an orde[r ...] |
| Reverse [3:5] r 4'4'–r 5'5' | Likewise they are ... each other, |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | they frighten each other. |
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\t be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}30—DINGIR-a.a | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-a | |
| 4 | ina UGU {uru}ma-ha-zi-MEŠ\m | |
| 5 | ša\m MAN be-li₂ ip-qi-da\d-an-ni | |
| 6 | ma-a a—bal-la-tuk-ka a—bal-la-tuk-ka | |
| 7 | mi-mi-ni la ep-pu-šu₂ | |
| 8 | šum-ma {lu₂v}A—KIN {lu₂v}A—KIN et-ti\t-iq | |
| 9 | a—bal-duk-ka a—bal-duk-ka la et-ti\t-qu | |
| 10 | u šum-ma {lu₂v}ha-za-⸢na⸣-[ti] | |
| 11 | [x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | it-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ṭe₃-e-⸢mu⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 4' | is-se-niš ina bi UM | |
| 5' | a-ha-meš šu-nu-ma | |
| 6' | a-ha-meš u₂-gal₃\p-lu-du | |
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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