ABL 0636 (P334440)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0636 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334440 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:8] o 1'1'– | [Concerning NN about w]hom the king, my lord, wrote to me [via] Šarrat-samm[a-ila'i] — in performing the zikurudāni-rites for him we once again invoked the name and performed it. |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44 | We are performing the treatment and the rites constantly and without fail. |
| Reverse [4:6] r 55–r 66 | To inspect Aššur-mukin-palu'a [...] |
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-li [ina ŠU.2 | |
| 2' | {1}{d}šar-rat—sa-am-⸢ma⸣—[DINGIR-a.a] | |
| 3' | iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 4' | ne₂-pe-ši ša ZI.KU.RU.⸢DA-MEŠ⸣ | |
| 5' | a-na e-pe-ši-šu₂ tu-u₂-ru | |
| 6' | šu-mu ni-za-kar | |
| 7' | ne₂-ta-pa-aš₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ka-a.a-ma-ni-ia-u₂ | |
| 2 | a-na dul-lu u ne₂-pe-ši | |
| 3 | la ni-ši-ia-aṭ | |
| 4 | ne₂-ep-pa-aš₂ | |
| 5 | {1}aš-šur—mu-kin{in}BALA-u-a | |
| 6 | ⸢a⸣-na a-⸢ma-a⸣-ru | |
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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