ABL 0550 (P334375)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0550 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334375 |
| 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 ki[ng, my lord]: your servant [NN]. Good heal[th to] the king, [my] lord! |
| Obverse [3:15] o 44– | The son of Abu-i[l]a'i, about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Do justice to him!" — his adversary went to the ordeal [but turned back from the ord]eal. |
| Reverse [0:7] r 1r 1–r 77 | [The ...] set a [fine ...] but he did not pay it, so the son of Abu-ila'i seized his share and his people. |
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}x x x x] | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-⸢mu⸣ [a-na] LUGAL EN-[ia] | |
| 4 | A {1}AD—⸢DINGIR⸣-a.⸢a⸣ | |
| 5 | ša LUGAL ⸢EN⸣ o | |
| 6 | iš-pur-⸢an⸣-ni | |
| 7 | ma de-⸢ni⸣-šu₂ | |
| 8 | e-pu-šu₂ | |
| 9 | EN—de-ni-šu₂ EN—de-ni-šu₂ | |
| 10 | ina hu-ur-si | |
| 11 | ⸢i⸣-ta-lak | |
| b.e. | ||
| 12 | [TA@v hu]-⸢ur⸣-si | |
| 13 | [it-tu-ra] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 2 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ hi [x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 3 | ⸢is-sa⸣-ka-na | |
| 4 | la i-di-ni | |
| 5 | a—HA.LA-šu₂ a—HA.LA-šu₂ | |
| 6 | UN-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 7 | A {1}AD—DINGIR-a.a | |
| 8 | u₂-ṣa-bi-ti\t | |
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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