ABL 0766 (P334541)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0766 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334541 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To the kin]g, my lord: your servant Šamaš-metu-uballiṭ. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [5:11] o 66–o 1111 | Yesterday, when I was coming after the king, I entered the centre of Nineveh. There were bricks at the king's guard. [The whe]el of the chariot hit them (and) broke instantly. |
| Obverse [11:16] o 1212– | [N]ow, let the king, my lord, give an order, so that they may do the work on 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] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}GIŠ.NU₁₁—UG₅.GA—TI.LA | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | be-li₂-ia₂ {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | it—ti-ma-li it—ti-ma-li ina be₂-et | |
| 7 | i—da-at i—da-at LUGAL al-la-kan-ni | |
| 8 | ina qab-si NINA{ki} e-tar-ba | |
| 9 | ina EN.NUN LUGAL SIG₄-MEŠ šak-na | |
| 10 | ⸢UMBIN⸣ ša {giš}GIGIR is-se-niš | |
| 11 | [it]-⸢ta-ha⸣-aṣ ⸢it-tak⸣-sap | |
| 12 | [u₂]-ma-a LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ṭe₃-e-mu | |
| 2 | ⸢liš⸣-kun dul-lu | |
| 3 | [ina] UGU le-pu-šu₂ | |
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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