ABL 0950 (P334640)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0950 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334640 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the crown prince, my lord: your servant Nanî. Good health to the crown prince, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the crown prince, [my] lord. |
| Obverse [5:7] o 66–o 77 | When the king [......] |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1'1'–r 2'2' | [Ever since] they went, they have been with [...]. |
| Reverse [2:5] r 3'3'–r 5'5' | Now then one shepherd has come to me to Calah. He has acted [as an in]former. |
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 DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}na-ni-i | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na DUMU—MAN DUMU—MAN EN-[ia lik]-⸢ru⸣-bu | |
| 6 | ki-i LUGAL [x x] ⸢ra⸣ [x x] | |
| 7 | [x x] ⸢da⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | il-lik-u-ni TA@v ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 2' | šu-nu | |
| 3' | an-nu-rig 01 {lu₂v}SIPA | |
| 4' | ina IGI-ia ina {uru}kal₃-ha | |
| 5' | i-ta-al-ka | |
| 6' | ⸢ba⸣-te-qu-tu₂ u₂-tu-pi-⸢eš⸣ | |
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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