ABL 0585 (P334403)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0585 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334403 |
| 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 [0:14] o 1'1'– | [As to the ... whom the king my lord sent] to me with the captives, I have brought them [into the land of] the Chief Cupbearer and into [the cities of Ti]llê, Si'immê, Naṣibina and Isana; the exhausted ones I made enter Naṣibina on the 23rd. |
| Reverse [1:10] r 22–r 1010 | I impressed upon the deputies that it was a royal command that they should bring the people into fortified places where there is good water. [The]y said to me: "[...... |
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' | [ša LUGAL be-li₂] ⸢TA@v\m⸣ {lu₂vy}hu-⸢ub-ti⸣ | |
| 2' | [u₂-še-bil]-an-ni-ni | |
| 3' | [ina KUR—{lu₂v]}GAL—KAŠ.LUL | |
| 4' | [ina {uru]}⸢til⸣-le-e | |
| 5' | [ina {uru]}si-ʾi-me-e | |
| 6' | [ina] {⸢uru⸣}na-ṣi-bi-na | |
| 7' | [ina] {uru}i-sa-na | |
| 8' | u₂-se-ri-ib | |
| 9' | na-ga-ma-ru-u-te | |
| b.e. | ||
| 10' | UD 23-KAM | |
| 11' | ina {uru}na-ṣib\m-na | |
| r | ||
| 1 | u₂-se-ri-ib | |
| 2 | ⸢bir⸣-ti ⸢e⸣-ni | |
| 3 | ša\dm {lu₂v}02-u₂-te | |
| 4 | un-ta-di-id nu-uk\d | |
| 5 | a-bat LUGAL ši-i-ti | |
| 6 | [ina] ⸢E₂⸣—BAD₃-MEŠ-ni ⸢E₂⸣—BAD₃-MEŠ-ni | |
| 7 | ⸢E₂⸣ A-MEŠ ṭa-bu-u-ni | |
| 8 | [UN]-MEŠ še-ri-ba\t | |
| 9 | [šu]-⸢nu⸣ iq-ṭi₂-bu-ni | |
| 10 | [ma-a x x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | ma-a [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | pi-qit-⸢ti⸣ [x x x x x x 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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