ABL 0680 (P334478)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0680 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334478 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To the king, my lord: your servant Akkullanu. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [7:9] o 88–o 99 | Concerning the emissaries of Bit-[K]ari |
| Reverse [1:9] r 2'2'–r 9'9' | [Let] them [brin]g me woolen garments and leather san[dals]; [o]r shall I wear white clothes here? What is it that the king, my lord, says? I have only wanted to remind the king, my lord. |
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-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}a-kul-la-nu | |
| 3 | lu-u šul-mu | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 5 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 7 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 8 | ina UGU {lu₂}MAH-MEŠ | |
| 9 | {kur}E₂—[ka]-ar-⸢ra-a.a⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x] | |
| 2' | [lu]-⸢bil⸣-u-ni ku-zip-[pi] | |
| 3' | ⸢ša⸣ SIG₂ {kuš}E.[SIR₂-MEŠ] | |
| 4' | [u₂]-⸢la⸣-a an-na-ka | |
| 5' | ku-zip-pi BABBAR-MEŠ | |
| 6' | u₂-ka-la mi-i-nu | |
| 7' | ša LUGAL be-li₂ i-qab-bu-u-ni | |
| 8' | hi-su-tu ši-i | |
| 9' | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 10' | u₂-sa-ah-si-is | |
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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