ABL 0769 (P334544)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0769 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334544 |
| 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 [lo]rd: your servant Nabû-šarru-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | My scouts have come out [fr]om the Interior and reported to me [as foll]ows: "[......]" |
| Reverse [1:7] r 2'2'– | As to what I wrote the king, my lord: "This governor has come to Mount Kirmesi" — it is not so, he has not come but is still there. |
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⸣ [be]-⸢li₂⸣-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}PA—MAN—PAB | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na\t LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | {lu₂v}da-a.a-li-ia | |
| 5 | ⸢TA⸣ E₂-a-ni it-tu\t-ṣu-u-ni | |
| 6 | [ki-i an]-⸢ni-e⸣ iq-ṭi₂-bu-u-ni\t | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | ša a-na\y LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ aš₂-pur-a-ni\t | |
| 3' | nu-uk\d {lu₂v}EN.NAM an-ni-u | |
| 4' | a-na {kur}ki-ir-me-si KUR-e | |
| r.e. | ||
| 5 | i-tal-ka la-aš₂-šu₂ | |
| 6 | la il-li-ka | |
| 7 | am-ma-kam-ma šu-u | |
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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