ABL 0615 (P334427)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0615 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334427 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1'1'–o 3'3' | [Concerning the ... incumbent] upon Kilizi and Dur-Samedi — |
| Obverse [3:8] o 4'4'–o 8'8' | NN, the [...] of the governor of [...] (normally) brings it and makes it pass before [me], and they (then) seal it and bring it to the Inner City. |
| Obverse [8:10] o 9'9'–o 10'10' | [Now] nothing [...] |
| Reverse [0:9] r 1'1'–r 9'9' | [7 sheep o]f Kilizi, 10 sheep of Dur-samedi — total: 17 sheep for the temple of Dagan — are at the disposal of the king. They did not transfer them here. They are on the other bank [...]. The king, my lord [...] |
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 x x] | |
| 2' | [x x]-a ina UGU {uru}[kal₃-zi] | |
| 3' | {⸢uru}BAD₃—sa-me⸣-[di x] | |
| 4' | ⸢ad-bu⸣-bu {lu₂}⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 5' | ša {lu₂}EN.NAM ša [x x] | |
| 6' | u₂-ba-la ina pa-ni-[ia] | |
| 7' | u₂-še-ta-qa i-ka-nu-[ku] | |
| 8' | [a]-⸢na⸣ {uru}ŠA₃—URU u₂-ba-lu-ni | |
| 9' | [x x x] me-mi₃-i-ni | |
| 10' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-li | |
| r | ||
| 1' | 07 UDU] ⸢ša⸣ {uru}kal₃-zi | |
| 2' | 10 UDU ša {uru}BAD₃—sa-me-di | |
| 3' | PAB 17 UDU ša E₂—{d}da-gan | |
| 4' | ina pa-an LUGAL-ma ha-na-ak | |
| 5' | la-a u₂-še-ti-qu | |
| 6' | a-na a-hu-lam-ma [x x x] | |
| 7' | LUGAL be-li [x x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ hi ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 9' | [x x 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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