ABL 0681 (P334479)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0681 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334479 |
| 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! |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1'1'–r 4'4' | The king, my lord, [will get angry] and say: "Why did he ask me?" For the god's sake, on whom are his eyes fixed? Whom (else) would I ask? |
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}ak-kul-la-nu | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 5 | {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ lik-[ru]-bu | |
| 7 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | LUGAL be-li₂ [i-ra-ub] | |
| 2' | ma-a a-ta-a iš-al | |
| 3' | i-lu-um-ma TA@v man-ni | |
| 4' | IGI.2-MEŠ-šu₂ šak-na | |
| 5' | a-na man-ni-im-ma la-aš₂-al | |
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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