ABL 0590 (P334405)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0590 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334405 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1'1'–o 4'4' | "Have the men re[ally] not fallen into [their hands] in the city [...]?" |
| Obverse [4:8] o 5'5'–o 8'8' | I sent Saniye, the city lord, and Kaqqadanu to bring (them), and asked them where the men are. |
| Obverse [8:17] o 9'9'– | They said: "The men have got scared," and informed me as follows: "The men are in there; let them extend the ... for us until they fall into our hands." |
| Reverse [4:7] r 55–r 77 | If the king, [my] lo[rd], orders, Saniye [and Kaqqadan]u [...] before [......] |
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' | [ma]-⸢a ina {uru⸣}[x x x x] | |
| 2' | {⸢lu₂⸣}ERIM-MEŠ i-[ba-aš₂-ši-i] | |
| 3' | ina ŠA₃-bi ina [ŠU.2-šu₂-nu] | |
| 4' | la in-⸢qu⸣-[tu] | |
| 5' | {1}sa-ni-ie {lu₂}⸢EN—URU⸣ {lu₂}⸢EN—URU⸣ | |
| 6' | TA@v\m {1}kaq-qa\d-da-a-ni | |
| 7' | a-sa-par na-ṣu-u₂-ni | |
| 8' | a-sa-ʾa-al-šu₂-nu mu-uk {lu₂}ERIM-MEŠ | |
| 9' | a-le-e ma-a {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ ig-du-ru | |
| b.e. | ||
| 10' | a-ki an-ni-e iq-ṭi-bu-u-ni | |
| 11' | ma-a {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ ina ŠA₃-bi | |
| r | ||
| 1 | šu-nu ma-a ši-du | |
| 2 | lu-ri-ku-na\t-ši a-du E₂ | |
| 3 | {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ ina qa\d-ti\t-ni\d | |
| 4 | i-ma-qa-tu-ni-ni | |
| 5 | šum₂-ma LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[li₂] i-qa-bi | |
| 6 | {1}sa-ni-ie [x x x] ⸢ni⸣ | |
| 7 | ⸢ina⸣ IGI [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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