ABL 0938 (P334634)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0938 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334634 |
| 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 Samnuhu-beli-uṣur. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | As to the saplings about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, I have pulled up 1,000 apple-tree saplings from where [there were] 3 or [......]. |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | A royal bo[dyguard ...... |
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-a | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}sa-am-nu-hu—U—PAB | |
| 3 | DI\d-mu a-na LUGAL EN-a | |
| 4 | ina UGU {giš}ziq\p-⸢pi ša\yd⸣ LUGAL | |
| 5 | be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 6 | 01 lim {giš}ziq\p-pu ⸢ša⸣ {giš}HAŠHUR\m-MEŠ | |
| 7 | E₂ 03 E₂ [x x x]-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 8 | a-ta-sa-⸢ha⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 9 | {⸢lu₂vy}qur⸣-[bu-ti 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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