ABL 0598 (P334411)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0598 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334411 |
| 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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [To the king, my lord: your servant NN]. The best of he[alth to the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [1:10] o 2'2'–o 10'10' | [...] the bodyguard Sîn-kenu-uṣur came and told the magnates: "Set out and go!" Now then they have set out and are going. Should I go with them? What is it that the king, my lord, commands? |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | [...] to Sîn-kenu-[uṣur] |
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' | ⸢lu DI⸣-[mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 2' | a—dan-niš ⸢lu DI-mu⸣ | |
| 3' | {1}30—GIN—PAB {lu₂v}qur-bu-te | |
| 4' | i-tal-ka a-na\t {lu₂v}GAL-MEŠ | |
| 5' | iq-ṭi₂-bi ma na-mi-ša₂ | |
| 6' | li\t-kal-ka an-nu-rig | |
| 7' | u₂-ta-mi-šu i-lu-ku | |
| 8' | la-li\t-ki i-si-šu-nu | |
| 9' | mi-i-nu ša LUGAL EN | |
| 10' | i-qa-bu-u₂-ni | |
| 11' | a-na {1}30—GIN—[PAB] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x x x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2' | ina ⸢UGU x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x] ⸢a 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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