ABL 0946 (P334638)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0946 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334638 |
| 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 Mušallim-Adad. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | The forts of the king, [my] lord, are well; (everything) is fine from the forts o[f ...] as far as the fort[s of ...]. |
| Obverse [7:9] o 88–o 99 | When the king, [my lord, ...] the com[mandant ......] |
| Reverse [2:8] r 3'3'–r 8'8' | I have sent [...... to] the king, my lord; they will be placed where the king, my lord, orders. May the king, my lord, send ... to his servant, lest I die. |
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}mu-šal-lim—{d}IM | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | DI-mu a-na {uru}HAL.⸢ṢU-MEŠ⸣ | |
| 5 | ša\ydp LUGAL EN-[ia o] | |
| 6 | TA@v {uru}HAL.ṢU-MEŠ ⸢ša⸣ [x x] | |
| 7 | a-du {uru}HAL.ṢU-[MEŠ x x x] | |
| 8 | DI-mu E₂ LUGAL [be-li x x] | |
| 9 | {[lu₂v]}⸢ši⸣-kin—[ṭe₃-mi] {[lu₂v]}⸢ši⸣-kin—[ṭe₃-mi] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x]-ra-a-ni | |
| 3' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x] LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4' | a-⸢sa-pa-ra⸣ E₂ LUGAL be-li | |
| 5' | i-qa-bu-u-ni kar-ru | |
| 6' | ṭe₃-ru-bu | |
| 7' | LUGAL be-li a-na ARAD-šu₂ | |
| 8' | ⸢li-iš⸣-pur-ra\d | |
| 9' | ku-um a-mu-tu-ni | |
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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