ABL 0649 (P334450)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0649 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334450 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [May DN and DN bless the king], my [lord]! |
| Obverse [1:5] o 2'2'–o 5'5' | [x] Kushite hors[es] from the commander-in-chief of the left; |
| Obverse [5:10] o 6'6'–o 10'10' | he is handing over in installments the 5 teams of colts of the memorandum; |
| Obverse [10:15] o 11'11'– | [x]+5 Kushite horses and 33 cavalry mounts from the commander-in-chief; |
| Reverse [3:5] r 44–r 55 | 8 cavalry mounts from Šuhupa: |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | a total of 41 cavalry mounts — |
| Reverse [6:8] r 77–r 88 | 96 horses in all — have come in today. |
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' | [be-li₂]-ia [lik-ru-bu] | |
| 2' | [x] {anše}KUR.⸢RA⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 3' | {kur}ku-sa-a-a | |
| 4' | ša {lu₂v}tur-tan-ni | |
| 5' | ša šu-me-li | |
| 6' | 05 u₂-ra-a-te | |
| 7' | ša ṣe-eh-ru-te | |
| 8' | ša hi-se-te | |
| 9' | ⸢ina⸣ bat-ta-ta-a.a | |
| 10' | [i]-⸢paq⸣-qid-dan-ni | |
| 11' | [x]+05 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {kur}ku-sa-a-a | |
| 2 | 33 KUR BAD-HAL-li | |
| 3 | ša {lu₂v}tur-tan-ni | |
| 4 | 08 KUR BAD-HAL-li | |
| 5 | ša {uru}šu₂-hu-pa | |
| 6 | PAB 41 KUR BAD-HAL-li | |
| 7 | PAB 96 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 8 | UD-mu an-ni-u₂ | |
| 9 | e-tar-bu-u-[ni] | |
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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