ABL 0695 (P334492)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0695 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334492 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-ahhe-šallim. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû (and) Marduk bless the [king, my lord]. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | As to [what the king, my lord], |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [wrote] to [his] servant: |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | "If [......], |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | "when t[o ......] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | "he [......] |
| Obverse [9:11] o 1010– | "from the house of [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | "pro[vide ...]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | "If n[ot], |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | "she may stay as is!" |
| Reverse [4:9] r 55–r 99 | Who knows what is in Balṭay[a]'s presence? Nobody knows! I swear by the gods that (at least) I do not know for whom she is. |
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}{d}PA—PAB-MEŠ—DI | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU a-[na LUGAL EN-ia₂] | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu ina UGU [ša LUGAL be-li₂] | |
| 6 | a-na {lu₂v}ARAD-i-[šu₂ iš-pur-an-ni] | |
| 7 | ma-a šum-ma ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 8 | ki-i a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 9 | šu-u₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 10 | ma-a TA@v ⸢E₂⸣ [x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša₂-aṣ-[x x x x] | |
| 2 | ma-a u₂-⸢la⸣-[a] | |
| 3 | ši-i-ti-i-[ma] | |
| 4 | lu ši-i [o] | |
| 5 | ša ina IGI {1}bal-ṭa-a.[a] | |
| 6 | man-nu u₂-da me-me-ni | |
| 7 | la u₂-da ina ŠA₃ DINGIR-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 8 | at-ta-ma šum-ma | |
| 9 | a-na-ku-ma u₂-du-ni | |
| 10 | a-na man-ni ši-⸢ti⸣-[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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