ABL 0732 (P334521)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0732 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334521 |
| 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 ki]ng, my lord: your [servant] Nashir-Bel. [Good] health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | The land of the king [is well], the forts of the [king] a[re well]. The king, my lord, can [be glad]. |
| Obverse [6:10] o 77–o 1010 | I have b[rought 1],200 [door-beams] and [1],200 roof-b[eams] to the river. [...] the king [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...] the [...]s in the r[iver]. |
| Reverse [2:8] r 3'3'–r 8'8' | [As soon as] I have bro[ught] an equ[al number] of troops [into the forts, I will promptly bring them to the ri[ver] bank; afterwards, the king, my lord, may do as pleases. |
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}NIGIN—EN | |
| 3 | [lu DI]-mu a-na\t LUGAL\p EN-ia | |
| 4 | [DI-mu a]-na\t KUR ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 5 | [DI-mu a]-na\t HAL.ṢU-MEŠ ša [LUGAL] | |
| 6 | [ŠA₃ ša] LUGAL\p EN-ia lu [DUG₃] | |
| 7 | [x]-lim-02-me {gišd}[ŠU₂.A-MEŠ] | |
| 8 | [x]-lim-02-me {gišd}⸢UR₃⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 9 | [ina] UGU ID₂\t ⸢uq⸣-[ṭa-rib] | |
| 10 | [x x] LUGAL\p [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ šu bu [x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x]-MEŠ\p ina ⸢ID₂⸣ [x x x] | |
| 3' | [ki-ma] {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ u₂-sa-an-[šil] | |
| 4' | [ina] {⸢uru⸣}HAL.ṢU-MEŠ u₂\p-se-⸢rib⸣ | |
| 5' | ⸢la⸣-ah-ru-ub ina UGU ⸢ID₂⸣ | |
| 6' | ⸢lu⸣-qa-rib ur-ki-ti\t | |
| 7' | ⸢ki⸣-i ša₂ LUGAL\p i-la-u-ni | |
| 8' | ⸢le⸣-pu-uš | |
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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