ABL 0873 (P334600)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0873 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334600 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1'1'–o 4'4' | May they give [...], vigour, happiness and physical well-being to the king, my lord, like the king, my lord, has remembered his servant. |
| Obverse [4:9] o 5'5'–o 9'9' | Concerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me, it was indeed not well read, I did not read well. |
| Obverse [9:21] o 10'10'– | The king, my lord, knows that Nabû-gamil and Inurta-ahu-iddina are busy and Sumaya son of Nabû-zeru-lešir is ill. If it is acceptable the king, my lord, let them commission Balassu son of Nabû-ahu-iddina. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | [Also t]o the crown-prince [...] |
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' | [x x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x] TI.LA | |
| 2' | u₃ ṭu-ub ŠA₃-bi ṭu-ub UZU-MEŠ | |
| 3' | a-na LUGAL EN-ia lid-di-nu | |
| 4' | ki-i ša₂ LUGAL be-li ARAD-šu₂ | |
| 5' | ha-si-is-u-ni ina UGU ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 6' | be-li iš-pu-ra-an-ni | |
| 7' | ket-tu la dam-mu-qu | |
| 8' | la sa-su-u₂ šu-u | |
| 9' | la u₂-dam-mi-iq la as-si | |
| 10' | LUGAL be-li u₂-da | |
| 11' | {1}{d}AG—ga-mil {1}{d}MAŠ—PAB—AŠ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 12' | dul-la-šu₂-nu | |
| 13' | i-ba-aš₂-ši | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {1}su-ma-a.a | |
| 2 | DUMU {1}{d}PA—NUMUN—GIŠ GIG-iṣ | |
| 3 | šum₂-mu ina IGI LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | ma-hi-ir a-na {1}ba-la-su | |
| 5 | DUMU {1}{d}AG—PAB—AŠ | |
| 6 | ṭe₃-e-mu liš-ku-nu | |
| 7 | [u₃ a]-⸢na⸣ DUMU—MAN DUMU—MAN | |
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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