ABL 0551 (P334376)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0551 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334376 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, [my lord]: your servant, Sin-na'di, may[or of the Inner City]. May Aššur and Ešarra bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [6:9] o 77–o 99 | I am here; I came to greet the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [9:24] o 1010– | I have been informed that the sheet of gold of the temple of Aššur which they took [has been recovered]. The [... and] the thieves [...] are in custody, and the [...] who took the gold (from them) is in hand. Basali, the goldsmith, has come and remou[nted it]. I heard (first-hand) and wr[ote] to the [king], my lord. |
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}{[d}30—I] | |
| 3 | {lu₂}ha-za-[nu ša {uru}ŠA₃—URU] | |
| 4 | {d}aš-šur E₂.⸢ŠAR₂.RA⸣ | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 6 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | a-na-ku an-na-ka | |
| 8 | a-na DI-mu ša LUGAL | |
| 9 | be-li₂-ia a-tal-ka | |
| 10 | i—da-tu-u-a i—da-tu-u-a | |
| 11 | le-ʾu ša₂ KUG.GI | |
| 12 | ša E₂—{d}aš-[šur] | |
| 13 | ša₂ [il]-⸢qu⸣-u-[ni] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ma-[a x x x x] | |
| 2 | {lu₂}⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 3 | {lu₂}sa-⸢ru⸣-[te x x] | |
| 4 | ṣab-bu-tu₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 5 | ša₂ KUG.GI il-qu-u-ni | |
| 6 | ṣa-bit {1}ba-sa-li | |
| 7 | {lu₂}SIMUG.KUG.GI | |
| 8 | it-tal-ka [x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 9 | is-sa-kan a-⸢na⸣-[ku] | |
| 10 | a-se-me a-na [LUGAL] | |
| 11 | EN-ia a-sa-[ap-ra] | |
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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