ABL 0683 (P334481)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0683 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334481 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, my lord: [your servant] Nabû-šumu-iddina. The very best of [health] to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, [my] lord! |
| Reverse [2:10] r 3'3'–r 10'10' | [The ...] cavalry [mou]nts [did not arr]ive, [and the ...] about which [I w]rote to the king, [my lord, are] in Adia. If the king, my lord, commands, they should cross over to Nineveh. Let king, my lord, send a letter in reply to (this) letter. |
| Reverse [10:13] r 11'11'– | Let the king, my lord, issue an order to the 'third men' |
| Edge [1:2] e. 22–e. 22 | They should wipe clean (the) [... o]f the temples. |
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 be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka] {1}{d}PA—MU—AŠ | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu] a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | a—dan-niš a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 6 | be-li₂-[ia] lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | [x x x x x x]-na | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x]-tu | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x]-a | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x]-ni | |
| 3' | [x x x KUR-MEŠ] ša BAD-HAL-li | |
| 4' | [la il-li]-ku-u-ni | |
| 5' | [x x x] ša a-na LUGAL | |
| 6' | [be-li₂-ia aš₂]-pur-an-ni ina {uru}a-di-a | |
| 7' | [šu-nu] šum-ma LUGAL be-li₂ i-qab-bi | |
| 8' | ⸢li⸣-bi-ru-u-ni ina {uru}ni-nu-a | |
| 9' | [e]-gir₂-te gab-ru-u ša e-gir₂-te | |
| 10' | LUGAL be-li₂ liš-pu-ru | |
| 11' | a-na {lu₂}03.U₅-MEŠ LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 12' | ṭe₃-e-mu liš-kun | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ u₃ na [x] ul tu₂ | |
| 2 | [x x] ⸢ša⸣ E₂.KUR-MEŠ lik-pu-ru | |
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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