ABL 0707 (P334500)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0707 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334500 |
| 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/saa15 · 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] lord: your servant Issar-duri. Good health to the king, [my] lord! |
| Obverse [3:10] o 44–o 1010 | In the night of the 5th day it started to rain hail. The ra[in poured dow]n through the night, the whole early morning and the next day. [... Aš]šur |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | I appealed for [...]. |
| Reverse [1:7] r 2'2'–r 7'7' | Now I have announced to the king, [my] lord, the good news of the rain. For my good news let them (now) give me what I appealed for. |
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}15—BAD₃ | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-[ia] | |
| 4 | ina MI ša UD 05-KAM₂ | |
| 5 | TA@v {giš}GAG-MEŠ\t A.AN | |
| 6 | u₂-sa-ri-ia | |
| 7 | mu-šu ka-⸢la⸣-na-ri-šu₂ | |
| 8 | gab-bu ⸢u₃⸣ [ka]-⸢la⸣ UD-me | |
| 9 | ⸢A⸣.[AN it-tu-ri]-⸢da⸣ | |
| 10 | [x x x x x aš]-šur | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢a⸣-[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | at-ta-har u₂-⸢ma⸣-[a] | |
| 3' | ša A.AN a-na LUGAL ⸢be-li₂⸣-[ia₂] | |
| 4' | up-ta-si-ir | |
| 5' | ša pa-su-ur-ti\t-ia | |
| 6' | ša ah-hu-ru-u-ni | |
| 7' | ⸢lid⸣-di-⸢nu⸣-u-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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