ABL 0980 (P334658)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0980 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334658 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Taklak-ana-Bel. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:12] o 44–o 1212 | As to the Qappatean about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Who is this man? Did the town perhaps persuade him not to c[ome ...] to Dur-[Šarruke]n? [...... |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | I am right now [...] sendi[ng him] to the king, [my lord]. |
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}tak-lak—a-na—EN | |
| 3 | lu šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | ina UGU {uru}qa-pa-ta\d-a.a | |
| 5 | ša\d LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-[ni] | |
| 6 | ma-a LU₂ man-nu šu-u-tu₂ | |
| 7 | ⸢ma⸣-[a] ina sur-re-e URU u₂-ša\d-ad-bi-bu-⸢šu₂⸣ | |
| 8 | ma a-na {uru}⸢BAD₃\p⸣—{1}MAN—GI].⸢NA⸣ [x x] | |
| 9 | ⸢la⸣-a ⸢tal⸣-[x x x x x] | |
| 10 | {lu₂v}⸢qur⸣-[bu-te x x x x x x] | |
| 11 | ⸢ma⸣-a [x x x x x x] | |
| 12 | {⸢lu₂v⸣}[x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | an-nu-⸢rig⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2' | ina UGU LUGAL [EN-ia] | |
| 3' | u₂-se-bi-[la-šu₂] | |
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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