ABL 0995 (P334667)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0995 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334667 |
| 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 [1:5] o 2'2'–o 5'5' | ......] for his eyes; he does not give any [str]aw or fodder [to] the horses. |
| Obverse [5:13] o 6'6'– | Let a messenger of the king my lord come and have a look at the [...], and (then) go and inform 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' | [x x x x] ⸢x x⸣+[x] | |
| 2' | [x x x] ⸢a⸣-na\t IGI.2-[MEŠ]-⸢šu₂⸣ | |
| 3' | {[še}IN].NU {še}ki\d-su-tu₂ | |
| 4' | [a-na] {⸢anše⸣}KUR.RA\t-ME | |
| 5' | [la-a] ⸢i⸣-da\d-an | |
| 6' | {[lu₂]}A—šip-ri {[lu₂]}A—šip-ri {[lu₂]}A—šip-ri | |
| 7' | [ša LUGAL] EN-ia₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [lil]-li-ka | |
| 2 | [x]-⸢MEŠ⸣ le-e-mur | |
| 3 | [lil]-li-ka | |
| 4 | [ina IGI] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ia₂ | |
| 5 | [li]-iq\d-bi | |
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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