ABL 0731 (P334520)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0731 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334520 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:9] o 1o 1–o 99 | To the king, my lord: your servant Sin-ahhe-riba. Good health to the king, my lord! Assyria is well, the temples are well, all the [king's f]orts are well. [The king, m]y [lord, can be glad indeed.] |
| Reverse [1:7] r 2'2'–r 7'7' | ...] went [...]. Floods have advanced very considerably [in the province] of Nineveh, [in] Dur-Šarruken and in the province of Kurbail. |
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}30—PAB-MEŠ\t—SU | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | DI-mu a-na KUR—aš-šur | |
| 5 | DI-mu a-na E₂.KUR-MEŠ\t | |
| 6 | DI-mu a-na {uru}bi-[ra]-ti | |
| 7 | [ša LUGAL gab]-⸢bu⸣ | |
| 8 | [ŠA₃-bu ša LUGAL EN]-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 9 | [a—dan-niš lu DUG₃.GA] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 2' | [it]-⸢ta⸣-lak | |
| 3' | [ina NAM] {uru}ni-nu-a | |
| 4' | [ina] {⸢uru⸣}BAD₃—{1}MAN—GIN | |
| 5' | ina NAM {uru}kur-ba-il₃ | |
| 6' | ma-aʾ-da a—dan-niš | |
| 7' | mi₃-il-ʾa-a-ni | |
| 8' | šu-nu it-tal-ku | |
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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