ABL 0642 (P334443)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0642 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334443 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-pašir. Good health to the king, my lord! May Sin and Nikkal bless the king, my lord!] |
| Obverse [5:9] o 66–o 99 | [As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me]: "Give [cloaks to the men of] Arbai and Šamaš-ilai!" — |
| Obverse [9:24] o 1010– | just as the king, my lord, wrote to me, I have sent 200 cloaks to the At[...eans] who are in the city of [...], and given 200 cloaks to the men of Epâ who are in Til-Barsip; [all together I have g]iven out 400 cloaks. |
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 | [a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}{d}AG\d—pa-šir] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | {[d}30 u {d}NIN.GAL] | |
| 5 | [a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu] | |
| 6 | [ina UGU-hi ša LUGAL EN] | |
| 7 | [iš-pur-an-ni] | |
| 8 | [a-na {1}⸢ar₂-ba\t⸣-a.a | |
| 9 | {1}{d}UTU—DINGIR⸣-a.a di-ni | |
| 10 | a-ki ša LUGAL EN iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 11 | 02 me {tug₂}gul-IGI.2-[MEŠ] | |
| 12 | a-na {kur}at-⸢tu\t⸣-[na-a.a] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 13 | ša ina {⸢uru⸣}[x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | u₂\dm-se-bi-[la] | |
| 2 | 02 me {tug₂}gul-IGI.2-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 3 | a-na {lu₂vy}ERIM-MEŠ ša {1}e-⸢pa-a⸣ | |
| 4 | ⸢ša⸣ ina {uru}tar-bu-si-bi | |
| 5 | [at]-ti\t-din | |
| 6 | [u] 07 me {tug₂}gul-IGI.2-MEŠ | |
| 7 | [at]-⸢ti\t⸣-din-ma [x x] | |
| 8 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ kan a [x x x] | |
| 9 | [x x x x] ⸢man⸣ [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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