ABL 0703 (P334497)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0703 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334497 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king, my l]ord: [your servant Š]a-Aššur-d[ubbu. Good h]ealth to the kin[g, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | Duri-A[dad the ...] has just come [with ...]tušu, the (royal) delegate; [I shall write] through Urda-[...] whatever he had to te[ll] and [rep]ort. |
| Obverse [7:10] o 88–o 1010 | Right now, Duri-Adad [...] is leaving, and the delegate is lea[ving] with him; they are on their way. [The king, my lord, can] be glad. |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | [...] my presence [......] |
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}⸢ša⸣—aš-šur—⸢du⸣-[bu] | |
| 3 | [lu DI]-⸢mu⸣ a-na\t ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-li₂-ia] | |
| 4 | [an-nu]-⸢ri⸣ {1}BAD₃\p—{d}⸢IM⸣ {[lu₂v}x x] | |
| 5 | {1}x-x]+⸢x⸣-tu₂-šu₂ {lu₂v}qe-e-pu [i-si-šu] | |
| 6 | [it]-⸢tal⸣-ka mi-nu ša di-⸢bi⸣-[šu₂-ni] | |
| 7 | [ša] ⸢ṭe₃⸣-en-šu₂-u-ni ina ŠU.2 {1}ARAD—[x a-šap-pa-ra] | |
| 8 | [u₂]-⸢ma⸣-a an-nu-ri {1}BAD₃\p—{d}IM ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 9 | [il]-lak {lu₂v}qe-pu i-si-šu il-⸢lak⸣-[ma] | |
| 10 | ⸢il⸣-lu-ku ŠA₃-bu [ša LUGAL EN-ia₂ lu DUG₃.GA] | |
| 11 | [x x pa]-⸢ne₂⸣-e-a [x x x x] | |
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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