ABL 0562 (P334384)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0562 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334384 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To the king, my] lord: Your servant [Ṭab-ṣill-Ešarra]. Good health [to the king, my lord!] May Aššur and Mullissu bless the [king], my lord! |
| Obverse [5:8] o 66–o 88 | As to Bel-ha[...], the canal inspector of whom the king, my lord, wr[ote to me], |
| Obverse [8:16] o 99– | he arrived in the Inner City on the [eve] of the 4th, brought out his ... and left for 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}[DUG₃.GA—ṣil—E₂.ŠAR₂.RA] | |
| 3 | lu DI-[mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}⸢NIN.LIL₂⸣ a-na [LUGAL] | |
| 5 | EN-ia lik-ru-[bu] | |
| 6 | ina UGU {1}EN—ha-[x x] | |
| 7 | {lu₂v}GU₂.⸢GAL⸣ | |
| 8 | ša LUGAL EN iš\t-[pur-an-ni] | |
| 9 | UD 04-KAM₂ ina [x x] | |
| 10 | ina {uru}ŠA₃—URU | |
| 11 | iq\y-ṭar-⸢ba⸣ | |
| 12 | qar-ba-te-⸢šu⸣ | |
| 13 | u₂-se-ṣi-a | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina pa-an [LUGAL] | |
| 2 | i-ta-[lak] | |
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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