ABL 0802 (P334564)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0802 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334564 |
| 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 Šamaš-belu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:11] o 44–o 1111 | The king, my lord, knows that we transport fodder from here to Ampihabi. There is an old boat we use for shipping straw, fodder and all sorts of things [......] |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | If [it is all right], she may go with the king, m[y] lord. |
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}{d}UTU—EN—PAB | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | LUGAL be-li₂ u₂-da\d | |
| 5 | {še}ki-su\t-tu₂ TA@v\m na-ak | |
| 6 | a-na {kur}am\p-pi-ha-a-bi ni-za-bi-lu-ni | |
| 7 | {giš}MA₂ ši-i la-bir-tu₂ | |
| 8 | ša\dy ti\t-ib-nu {še}ki-su\t-tu₂ | |
| 9 | mi₃-i-nu ša\dy i-ba\t-šu-u-ni | |
| 10 | ina ŠA₃-bi nu-še-ba-lu-u-ni | |
| 11 | i-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | šum₂-⸢ma⸣ [ta-ri-iṣ] | |
| 2' | TA@v\m LUGAL EN-⸢ia⸣ [o] | |
| 3' | lu-u ta-li\t-ki | |
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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