ABL 0903 (P334616)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0903 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334616 |
| 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] Mannu-ki-Adad. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | As to the [unge]lded oxen [about which] the king, my lord, [wrot]e me |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1'1'–r 4'4' | [As to what the king, my lord wrote me]: "Buy [... fr]om the Itu'eans with silver!" — we are buying (them). |
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}man-nu—ki—10 | |
| 3 | ⸢lu⸣ DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | ⸢EN⸣-ia ina UGU GUD-MEŠ | |
| 5 | [šak]-⸢la⸣-lu-tu | |
| 6 | [ša] LUGAL BE.LUM | |
| 7 | [iš-pur]-⸢an⸣-ni | |
| 8 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x]+⸢x x x⸣ | |
| 2' | [TA@v] pa-an {lu₂v}i-tu₂-ʾa-a.[a] | |
| 3' | ina ŠA₃ KUG.UD li-qi-a | |
| 4' | ni-la\p-qi <$x$> | |
| 5' | <$x$> | |
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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