ABL 0888 (P334610)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0888 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334610 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | To the king, my lord: your servant Samnu[ha-beli-uṣ]ur. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:13] o 44–o 1313 | The king's work has become a burden to me. [I released] my [me]n in early winter, but those who were released entered strongholds in order to evade the king's work. [O king my lo]rd, let a royal bodyguard be commissioned to bring them out, and let them do the king's [work]. |
| Obverse [13:16] o 1414– | Samnuhu-bessunu, a citizen of Šadikanni |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44 | [......] holds [...; ...] have passed into the possession of the people of Kannu'. |
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\yt EN-[a] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}sa-am-nu-[hu—U]—⸢PAB⸣ | |
| 3 | DI-mu a-na LUGAL\yt EN-a | |
| 4 | [dul]-⸢lu⸣ LUGAL ina UGU-hi-a KALAG-an | |
| 5 | {[lu₂}ERIM]-MEŠ\m-a ku-ṣi har-pi | |
| 6 | <$x x x x$> | |
| 7 | ⸢ša⸣ i-pa-ṭar-u-ni | |
| 8 | [TA] ⸢IGI⸣ dul-li\d MAN | |
| 9 | [ina] ⸢ŠA₃ {e₂⸣}KALAG-MEŠ\m-ma e-tar-bu | |
| 10 | [LUGAL be]-li₂ {lu₂vy}qur-bu-ti\t | |
| 11 | [lip]-⸢qi⸣-du lu-še-ṣa-šu₂-nu | |
| 12 | [dul-lu] ša\yd LUGAL | |
| 13 | [le]-pu-šu | |
| 14 | {1}{d}sa-am-nu-hu—be₂-su-nu | |
| 15 | {⸢uru⸣}še-di-kan-a.a | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ me | |
| 2 | [x x x] u₂\m-kal | |
| 3 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ ŠA₃ ina KI.⸢TA⸣ | |
| 4 | {[lu₂vy]}⸢kan⸣-nu-uʾ-a.a | |
| 5 | e-tar-bu\td | |
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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