ABL 0729 (P334518)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0729 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334518 |
| 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 lord: your servant Na'di-ilu. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | Now that the king, my lord, has set out and is coming, should I come as far as Šabirešu to meet the king, my lord? May the king, my lord, wr[ite me] what the king my lo[rd's orders are]. |
| Obverse [8:12] o 99–o 1212 | [Perhaps] the king, my lord, will s[ay]: "The horses [...] |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | ... should se[n]d straw [......] |
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}I—DINGIR | |
| 3 | lu šul-mu\t a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | an-nu-rig LUGAL be-li₂ <$ut-ta-mi₃-ši$> | |
| 5 | il\t-la-ka a-na-ku lal-lik-ka\d | |
| 6 | a-du {uru}ša₂-bi-ri-šu₂ | |
| 7 | ina GABA LUGAL be-li₂-ia-⸢a⸣ | |
| 8 | mi-i-nu ša LUGAL [be-li₂ i-qab-bu-ni] | |
| 9 | LUGAL be-li₂ liš\d-⸢pu⸣-[ra i—su-ri] | |
| 10 | LUGAL be-li₂ i-[qab-bi] | |
| 11 | ⸢ma⸣-a {anše}KUR.RA-[MEŠ x x] | |
| 12 | [x x]+⸢x x x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 2' | ⸢ha⸣-[nu]-⸢te⸣ {še}IN\p.[NU-MEŠ] | |
| 3' | liš-pu-⸢ru⸣ [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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