ABL 0936 (P334633)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0936 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334633 |
| 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 [lo]rd: [your servant Mannu-k]i-Arbail. [Good health to the k]ing, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | [......] Hubuškia |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | [......] we have departed |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | ... [......]; perhaps they [will o]bey us as regards [...]. |
| Reverse [3:9] r 4'4'– | The Lab[d]ud[eans are coming] up and getting here; which way should we take to [meet] the emissaries? Now, should they come up [to ...], or [...]? |
| Right [0:3] r.e. 9r.e. 9–r.e. 1111 | [Let the king send a messenger] to come and [tell] us what the orders are. |
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⸣—{uru}arba-il₃ | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ia | |
| 4 | [x x x x x] {⸢kur⸣}hu-buš\d-ki-a | |
| 5 | [x x x x x] nu-ta-me-ši | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x]+⸢x⸣-na\t-aš₂-ta-[x x x] | |
| 3' | [i]—su\t-ri UGU ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 4' | [i]-⸢ša₂⸣-mu-na\t-ši {lu₂v}lab-⸢du-da⸣-[a.a] | |
| 5' | [e]-⸢lu⸣-ni i-la-ku-u-ni | |
| 6' | [a-na] a.a-e KASKAL\d ni-li\d-ka | |
| 7' | [ina GABA] {lu₂v}MAH-MEŠ u₂\p-ma-a | |
| 8' | [x x] le-⸢lu⸣-u-ni u₂-la-a | |
| r.e. | ||
| 9 | [x x x]-⸢ni⸣ mi-nu ša\ym ṭe₃-e-mu-ni | |
| 10 | {[lu₂v}A—KIN {[lu₂v}A—KIN LUGAL] ina GABA-ni | |
| 11 | [liš-pu-ra lil]-li\d-ka | |
| 12 | [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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