ABL 0583 (P334402)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0583 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334402 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:4] o 2'2'–o 4'4' | If the king [so orders], we will perfor[m] it t[oo] on the river bank. |
| Obverse [4:6] o 5'5'–o 6'6' | Let it be brought and thrown on the river Zab. |
| Obverse [6:15] o 7'7'– | May the king, my lord, decide and write, and give orders to whoever man is to bring and throw it. |
| Reverse [5:7] r 66–r 77 | Now the tablet [...] |
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' | [x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 2' | šum-ma LUGAL [i-qab-bi] | |
| 3' | ina UGU ID₂-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 4' | ne₂-e-pu-⸢uš⸣ | |
| 5' | lu-bi-lu ina UGU {id₂}za-⸢ab-bi⸣ ši-i | |
| 6' | li-ik-ru-ru | |
| 7' | LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 8' | lip-ru-us | |
| r | ||
| 1 | liš-pu-ra | |
| 2 | u₃ LU₂ man-nu | |
| 3 | ša ub-bal-u-ni | |
| 4 | i-kar-ra-ru-ru-ni | |
| 5 | ṭe₃-e-mu liš-kun | |
| 6 | u₂-ma-a ṭup-pu [x] | |
| 7 | [x] ʾa ši [x x] | |
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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