ABL 0757 (P334534)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0757 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334534 |
| 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 Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | The pack animals of the king, my lord, are well; the subjects of the king, my lord, are well; the land of Bit-Zamani is well. |
| Obverse [8:16] o 99– | I will have the m[ar]es serviced until [Tam]muz (IV); in between the urging of the herds to the mares, I am cutting hay. |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44 | On the 15th of Tammuz I would like to come and see the face of the king, my lord, (about) my work — |
| Reverse [4:9] r 55–r 99 | Perhaps I am lagging behind my colleagues; I should inspect my work i[n] Dur-Šarruken. |
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-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}LUGAL—IGI.LAL-a-ni | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na\t LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | DI-mu\pp a-na a-ṣa-pi-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 5 | ša\dm LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 6 | DI-mu\p a-na {lu₂vy}ARAD-MEŠ | |
| 7 | ša\dtm LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 8 | DI-⸢mu a⸣-na {kur}E₂—za-ma-ni | |
| 9 | a-du {⸢iti}ŠU⸣ {mi₂}⸢ANŠE.KUR⸣.RA | |
| 10 | u₂-šar-kab | |
| 11 | {u₂}pu-e\d | |
| 12 | a-na-kis\p | |
| 13 | a-na bir-te ra\d-da-bi | |
| 14 | ša\dtm bu\p-li | |
| 15 | a-na {mi₂}{anšed}KUR.RA | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-na 15 ša\dm {itim}ŠU | |
| 2 | la-al-li-ka | |
| 3 | IGI-MEŠ ša\dm LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | la-⸢mur⸣ KIN-i | |
| 5 | i—su-ri | |
| 6 | bir-ti me-eh-ri-⸢ia₂⸣ | |
| 7 | a-ma-ra-ku₃\p | |
| 8 | dul-li | |
| 9 | ⸢ina {uru⸣}BAD₃—LUGAL—i-⸢ku⸣ | |
| 10 | ⸢la⸣-mur | |
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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