ABL 0596 (P334410)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0596 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334410 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1'1'–o 3'3' | as many as [...] remain in [......]... |
| Obverse [3:12] o 4'4'– | "The Urarṭian troops advanced to the border; he went out to meet them in [...] of [......]" |
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' | ina [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | mar [x x x x] | |
| 3' | re-he u₂-⸢sa-x⸣+[x x] | |
| 4' | ma-a {lu₂vy}e-mu-⸢qi⸣ | |
| 5' | ša\ty {kur}URI\dp ina UGU | |
| 6' | ta\p-hu-me | |
| r | ||
| 1 | i-tal-ku-u-ni | |
| 2 | ma-a i—ni-ir-ti\t-šu₂-nu i—ni-ir-ti\t-šu₂-nu | |
| 3 | i-tu₂-⸢ṣi i⸣-ta\p-lak | |
| 4 | a-na [x x x] | |
| 5 | ša\ty [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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