ABL 0758 (P334535)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0758 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334535 |
| 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] lo[rd]: your servant Šarru-em[uranni]. Good health t[o the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | While I [was in ...], |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | milhu stone [...] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | nukur[...] stone [...] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | at [my] disposal [...] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | to the dy[ers] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | I provi[ded ...] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | The king, my lord, [...] |
| Obverse [11:13] o 1212–o 1313 | [en]graver [...] |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1'1'–r 5'5' | [As to what] I sa[id to the king], my [lo]rd, [in] Cal[ah]: "I will [...] and we will [...] with it" — |
| Reverse [5:7] r 6'6'–r 7'7' | if that is all right, we shall [......] with it. |
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\t LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}MAN—IGI.[LAL-ni] | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | a-du E₂ a-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 5 | {na₄}mil-hu ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 6 | {na₄}nu-KUR-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 7 | ina pa-na\t-tu₂-⸢u⸣-[a] | |
| 8 | ina UGU ṣa-⸢pi⸣-[u₂-ti] | |
| 9 | uq\td-ṭa-⸢ri⸣-[bi x x x] | |
| 10 | [LUGAL] EN ⸢a ki⸣ [x x] | |
| 11 | [x x]-MEŠ tar-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 12 | {[lu₂v]}⸢KAB⸣.SAR ⸢ki⸣-[x x] | |
| 13 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ ni [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 2' | [ša ina] {⸢uru⸣}kal-[ha a-na LUGAL] | |
| 3' | ⸢EN⸣-ia aq-⸢bu⸣-[u-ni] | |
| 4' | [nu]-uk\td la-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 5' | ina ŠA₃-bi nu-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 6' | šum₂\p-ma SIG₅-⸢at⸣ [x x x] | |
| 7' | ina ŠA₃-bi-ša₂ ⸢nu⸣-[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
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