ABL 0644 (P334445)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0644 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334445 |
| 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 [0:11] o 1'1'– | The artists [...] said [to me]: "Write to the Palace that they should bring us 'wiping-stones' of Izalla. We should cleanse the Throne-of-Destiny of silver and the door of Ištar-of-Hearing." |
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' | {[lu₂]}⸢um-ma⸣-a-ni [x x x] | |
| 2' | ⸢iq⸣-ṭi-bu-[u-ni] | |
| 3' | ma-a ina E₂.GAL ⸢šu-pur⸣ | |
| 4' | {na₄}a-ba-na-ti\t | |
| 5' | ša\d {kur}i-zal-li | |
| 6' | ša\d ka-pa-ri | |
| 7' | lu-bi-lu-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | BARAG—NAM\p-MEŠ KUG.UD | |
| 2 | u₃ {giš}IG d.INNIN—GIŠ.TUK | |
| 3 | ina ŠA₃-bi ni-ik\y-pur | |
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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