ABL 0973 (P334652)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0973 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334652 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | [To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-šumu-iddina. The very best of health to the king, my lord]! May N[abû and Marduk] bl[ess the king], my lord! |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88 | 90 Kushite horses from the palace herald; |
| Obverse [8:10] o 99–o 1010 | 4 Kushite horses from the governor of Nineveh; |
| Obverse [10:12] o 1111–o 1212 | 4 Kushite horses from Aššur-belu-taqqin, the prefect — |
| Obverse [12:16] o 1313– | a total of 98 Kushite horses trained to the yo[ke] have come in today. |
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 be-li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}{d}AG—MU—AŠ] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 4 | [a—dan-niš a—dan-niš] | |
| 5 | {d}[AG {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL] | |
| 6 | be-li₂-ia lik-[ru-bu] | |
| 7 | 90 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ ku-sa-a-a | |
| 8 | ša {lu₂v}600—E₂.GAL {lu₂v}600—E₂.GAL | |
| 9 | 04 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ ku-sa-a-a | |
| 10 | ša {lu₂v}EN.NAM ša {uru}NINA | |
| 11 | 04 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ ku-sa-a-a | |
| 12 | ša {1}aš-šur—EN—LAL-in {lu₂v}GAR-nu | |
| 13 | PAB 98 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 14 | ku-sa-a-a ša ni-[i-ri] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 15 | UD-mu an-ni-u₂ | |
| 16 | e-tar-bu-u-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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