ABL 0725 (P334514)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0725 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334514 |
| 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/saa13 · 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 ki]ng, my lord: [your servant], Dadî. [Good health] to the king, my lord. [May Nabû and Mard]uk [bless] the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | [The ...] of the overseer of the palace should ask [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...] are/is well. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [As] he does not have access to the king |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [and] all of his men [are...] |
| Reverse [4:6] r 5'5'– | [he should not] enter the palace. |
| Right [0:1] r.e. 6'r.e. 6'–r.e. 6'r.e. 6' | [His men] will run around. |
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}da-di-i | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu] a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {[d}PA {d]}⸢MES⸣ a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | [lik-ru-bu x]+⸢x⸣ ša {lu₂v}ša₂—IGI—E₂.GAL | |
| 6 | [x x x x]-šu₂ ⸢li-ša₂⸣-al | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x] ⸢di x⸣+[x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x]-ni DI-mu | |
| 3' | [ina] ⸢pa⸣-an LUGAL la i-za-zu-ni | |
| 4' | [x] {⸢lu₂v⸣}ERIM-MEŠ-šu₂ gab-bu | |
| 5' | [x x]+⸢x⸣-ni ina ŠA₃ E₂.GAL | |
| r.e. | ||
| 6' | [x x x x] e-ra-ba | |
| 7' | [x x x x] i-du-lu | |
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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