ABL 0787 (P334558)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0787 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334558 |
| 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 Aššur-alik-pani. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | As to what Bel-iddina said in the presence of the king, my lord: "The [...]s [...] to the depu[ty ...]," |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | he [......] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | I [......] |
| Reverse [1:4] r 2'2'–r 4'4' | whether the [...s res]pect [their] government and are devoted to it ... |
| Reverse [4:6] r 5'5'–r 6'6' | Let me come and speak with this man in the king my lord's presence. |
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}aš-šur—a-lik—pa-an | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | ina UGU ša\d {1}EN—SUM-na ina pa-an LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | iq-bu-u-ni ma-a [x x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ | |
| 6 | a-na {lu₂vy}02-[e x x x x x] | |
| 7 | šu-u-tu₂ ⸢ina⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 8 | [a]-⸢na-ku⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | šum₂-ma {⸢lu₂vy⸣}[x x x] ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 3' | a-na E₂—EN-MEŠ-[šu₂-nu E₂—EN-MEŠ-[šu₂-nu i-pal]-⸢lah₃⸣-u-ni | |
| 4' | e-mar-u-ni a ⸢hu da⸣ ni | |
| 5' | lal-li-ka ina pa-an LUGAL | |
| 6' | EN-ia TA@v\m LU₂ ha-ni-u | |
| 7' | la-ad-bu-ub | |
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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