ABL 0874 (P334601)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0874 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334601 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To the king, my lord: your servant PN. Good health to the king, my lord]! May Bel (and) Nabû bless [the king], my lord. |
| Obverse [5:10] o 66–o 1010 | As to what the king, [my] lor[d] told me: "Chec[k] and test the upper part of the aṣūdu-bowl and thereafter dri[nk] on the accounts!" |
| Obverse [10:18] o 1111– | If it is acceptable to the [king], my lord, [let] the [...] vizier and the chief [......] the (royal) del[egate ...] |
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-li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}x x x] | |
| 3 | [lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 4 | {⸢d}EN⸣ {d}⸢AG⸣ [a-na LUGAL] | |
| 5 | be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ina UGU ša LUGAL be-[li₂] | |
| 7 | iq-bu-u-ni ma-a NIM-[MEŠ] | |
| 8 | ša a-ṣu-di hu-ur-[ṣa] | |
| 9 | lu-ut-ka ha-ra-me-ma | |
| 10 | ina UGU NIG₂.ŠID ši-⸢ti⸣-[a] | |
| 11 | šum₂-mu ma-hi-ir ina IGI [LUGAL] | |
| 12 | be-li₂-ia {lu₂v}SUKKAL [x] | |
| 13 | ⸢u₃⸣ {lu₂v}GAL—[x x] | |
| 14 | [x x x] {lu₂v}qe-[e-pu] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 15 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ šu [x x] | |
| 16 | [x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | nu [x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | ⸢x⸣+[x 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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