ABL 0953 (P334643)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0953 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334643 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To the king, my lord]: your ser[vant Bel-liqbi]. Good health to [the king, my lord]! The king's land and dis[trict] are well. |
| Obverse [5:11] o 66–o 1111 | Arabs have en[tered] into the interior (of the province), but the rains have arrived [...] and they are coming and going. |
| Obverse [11:15] o 1212– | The ... [...] who entered the city of [...... |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | I [keep watch] over the desert; the watch is [as strict as possible]. |
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}EN—liq-bi] | |
| 3 | [lu] DI\d-mu ⸢a-na\t LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] | |
| 4 | {kur}ma-a-tu₂ {kur}na\t-[gi-u₂] | |
| 5 | ša\dm LUGAL DI\d-mu [o] | |
| 6 | {lu₂vy}ar-⸢ba⸣-[a.a] | |
| 7 | a-na\t E₂-a-ni ⸢e-ta⸣-[ra-bu] | |
| 8 | A.AN-MEŠ\t a-⸢na\t x⸣+[x x] | |
| 9 | e\d-ta\p-ra\t-[ba o] | |
| 10 | šu-nu e\d-⸢ru⸣-[bu] | |
| 11 | u₂-ṣu-u₂ [x x] | |
| 12 | i-me-ru [x x x x] | |
| 13 | ša\dm a-na\t {uru}[x x x] | |
| 14 | e-ru-[x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {lu₂vy}[x x x x] | |
| 2 | i-[x x x x x] | |
| 3 | a-na\t-ku [EN.NUN.NA] | |
| 4 | ša\dm mad-bar [a-na-ṣar] | |
| 5 | EN.NUN\dm.NA\t [dan-nat a—dan-niš] | |
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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