ABL 0672 (P334470)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0672 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334470 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | [To the king], my lord: [your servant Issar-šumu]-ereš. [Good health t]o the king, my [lord]! [May Nabû and Mar]duk [bl]ess [the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [6:9] o 77– | [As to what the king, my lo]rd, [wrote to m]e: "[......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | there is [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | they perform [...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | let them place [...] |
| Reverse [4:6] r 5'5'–r 6'6' | Perhaps [the time of] its sighting is suitable [...]. |
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}15—MU]—KAM-eš | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL | |
| 4 | [EN]-ia | |
| 5 | {[d}AG u {d}AMAR].UTU | |
| 6 | [a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik]-⸢ru⸣-bu | |
| 7 | [ša LUGAL be]-⸢li⸣ | |
| 8 | [iš-pur-an]-⸢ni⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x] i-ba-aš₂-ši | |
| 3' | [x x x] ⸢ep⸣-pu-šu₂ | |
| 4' | [x x x]-⸢nu⸣ liš-ku-nu | |
| 5' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ is—su-ri | |
| 6' | [si-man ta]-mar-ti-ša₂ | |
| 7' | [x x x] ⸢ta⸣-ri-iṣ | |
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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