ABL 0798 (P334561)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0798 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334561 |
| 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/saa15 · 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 Šamaš-belu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | They have [g]iven me a document from the Palace saying: "[Haul th]resholds from Labdudu!" |
| Obverse [6:10] o 77–o 1010 | The king my lord knows that all [the servants of the ki]ng [have ...]ed [...] the canal |
| Reverse [1:7] r 2'2'–r 7'7' | [After I have r]eturned from the presence of [..., I shall mobili]ze the king's [se]rvants, and go and haul [the thresh]olds. [Wh]at is it that the king, my lord, says? |
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-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}UTU—EN—PAB | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL BE-ia | |
| 4 | ni-ib-zu\t TA@v\m ŠA₃ E₂.GAL | |
| 5 | [i]-⸢ta⸣-nu-u₂\m-ni | |
| 6 | [ma-a I].DIB-MEŠ TA@v\m {kur}lab-du-di | |
| 7 | [šu-du] LUGAL be-li₂ u₂\m-da | |
| 8 | [ARAD-MEŠ ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ gab-bu\t | |
| 9 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-bu\t | |
| 10 | [x x x x]-nu har-⸢ru⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ nu [x] | |
| 2' | [ki-ma] TA@v\m IGI [x x x] | |
| 3' | [a]-⸢su⸣-uh-⸢ra⸣ | |
| 4' | [x x x] ⸢ARAD⸣-MEŠ-ni ša LUGAL | |
| 5' | [a-da-ak]-⸢ki⸣ al-lak | |
| 6' | [I].⸢DIB⸣-MEŠ a-ša₂-da-da | |
| 7' | [mi]-nu ša LUGAL BE-i | |
| 8' | i-qa-bu\t-u-ni | |
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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