ABL 0788 (P334559)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0788 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334559 |
| 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, m[y] lord: your servant Aššur-alik-pan[i]. Good health to the king, [my] lord! |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44–o 99 | On the 5th day Aššur-bel-[...] came [to my presence] and communicated [us] the or[der] which the king, [my] lo[rd], gav[e] him about [...]: |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | "[......] |
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-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu\p a-na LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia] | |
| 4 | ina UD 05-KAM₂ {1}⸢aš-šur—EN-x⸣+[x ina IGI-ia] | |
| 5 | it-tal-ka ⸢ṭe₃-e⸣-[mu] | |
| 6 | ša\dm LUGAL be-[li₂] | |
| 7 | iš-ku-nu-šu₂-[u-ni] | |
| 8 | iq-ṭi₂-ba-⸢an⸣-[na-ši] | |
| 9 | ina ⸢UGU⸣ [x x]+⸢x⸣ a [x x x] | |
| 10 | ma-[a x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x x x x⸣ [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
- 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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