ABL 0996 (P334668)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0996 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334668 |
| 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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] o 1'1'– | "[Sen]d (word) [...]!" — We have been sending (word) [t]o the right and left. |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | Perhaps we shall indeed find (him/it), and I can send (him/it) 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' | [x x x x]-⸢di⸣ | |
| 2' | [šu-up]-⸢ru⸣ | |
| 3' | [a]-⸢na⸣ ZAG | |
| 4' | a-na šu-me-li | |
| 5' | ni-sa-ta-pa-ar | |
| r | ||
| 1 | i—su\t-ri | |
| 2 | i-ba\t-aš₂-ši | |
| 3 | ne₂-ma-ra | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | u₂-še-bal\d | |
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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