ABL 0714 (P334506)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0714 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334506 |
| 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 Marduk-šarru-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû (and) Marduk bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [4:8] o 55–o 88 | Nabû-ahhe-iddina, the royal bodyguard whom the king, my lord, sent concerning the weavers [of] the magnates |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1'1'–r 2'2' | [......] let them give me 20 [tale]nts of [red wool] of the port so they (can) m[ake it]. |
| Reverse [2:5] r 3'3'–r 5'5' | (As to) the [...] garment(s) [...] which they imposed on me, let them give me [red] wo[ol]; I will deliver it, and they will make it. |
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}ŠU₂—MAN—PAB | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu {1}{d}PA—PAB-MEŠ—AŠ | |
| 6 | {lu₂}qur-ZAG ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 7 | [ina] UGU {lu₂}UŠ.BAR-MEŠ | |
| 8 | ⸢ša⸣ {lu₂}GAL-MEŠ iš-pur-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x SIG₂.SA₅] SIG₂.SA₅] KAR | |
| 2' | 20 [GU₂].⸢UN⸣ li-di-nu-u-ni | |
| 3' | le-[pu-šu] ku-zip-pi | |
| 4' | [x x] ⸢x⸣ bat ša e-mi₃-du-ni-ni | |
| 5' | ⸢SIG₂⸣.[SA₅] ⸢SIG₂⸣.[SA₅] li-di-nu-ni | |
| 6' | la-ad-din le-pu-šu | |
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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