ABL 0708 (P334501)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0708 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334501 |
| 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 [lo]rd: [your servant] Issar-duri. [Good health] to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:12] o 44–o 1212 | [The servants o]f Bel-ahhe-riba [who ca]me and appealed to the king, [my lord, saying: "There a]re [brothe]rs of ours in Na[...]" — Inurta-šakin-[..., the bodyg]uard (whom) the king, [my l]ord, sent [with the]m, [has ...ed t]hese [...] of [...] |
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—du-ri | |
| 3 | [lu-u DI-mu] ⸢a⸣-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | [ARAD-MEŠ] ⸢ša⸣ {1}EN—PAB-MEŠ\m—SU | |
| 5 | [ša il]-⸢lik⸣-u-ni-ni a-na LUGAL | |
| 6 | [EN-ia] ih-har-u-ni | |
| 7 | [ma-a ŠEŠ]-MEŠ\m-i-ni ina {uru}na-[x x] | |
| 8 | [i-ba-aš₂]-ši {1}{d}MAŠ.MAŠ—GAR—[x] | |
| 9 | {[lu₂v}qur]-⸢bu⸣-te <ša> LUGAL be-[li₂] | |
| 10 | [i-si-šu₂]-⸢nu⸣ iš-pur-⸢an⸣-[ni] | |
| 11 | [x x] ⸢an⸣-nu-te ša\d [x x x] | |
| 12 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ mu [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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