ABL 0952 (P334642)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0952 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334642 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, [my lord]: your servant [Ašipâ]. The [best] of he[alth] to the king, [my lord]! |
| Obverse [4:7] o 55–o 77 | The forts and the land of the king, my lord, are well. |
| Obverse [7:13] o 88– | As to the hewn [...] stone about which the king, [my] lo[rd], gave [me] orders, |
| Reverse [2:7] r 33–r 77 | I am no[w] se[nding] to the ki[ng, my lord], four tal[ents] of he[wn ...] stone. |
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}a-ši-pa-a] | |
| 3 | lu-u ⸢šul⸣-[mu] | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL [EN-ia₂ a—dan-niš] | |
| 5 | DI-mu a-na [o] | |
| 6 | {uru}bi-rat [a-na KUR] | |
| 7 | ša\dm LUGAL EN-[ia] | |
| 8 | ina UGU {na₄}[x x] | |
| 9 | ba-ti-iq\d-[ti] | |
| 10 | ša\dm LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[li₂] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ṭe₃\t-me [o] | |
| 2 | iš\td-kun-a-ni-[ni] | |
| 3 | an-nu-⸢rig⸣ | |
| 4 | 04 bi-[lat] | |
| 5 | {na₄}u₂-[x x] | |
| 6 | ba-te-[iq-tu₂] | |
| 7 | a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] | |
| 8 | u₂-se-[bi-la] | |
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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