ABL 1004 (P334672)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1004 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334672 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [2:8] o 3'3'– | On the 12th [......] after [... he went] to Calah. On the 13th he w[ent] to [Calah] with the sons of the king. |
| Bottom [1:7] b.e. 8'8'– | On the 14th Adad-šumu-uṣur enter[ed] Nineveh and [spoke] with Aššur-naṣir, the chief [eunuch], Sasî and Urad-E[a]: "Let him sit (on the throne) before the eclip[se occurs]." |
| Reverse [3:6] r 44–r 66 | The matter [...] spre[ad out] before them [......] |
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' | la ⸢i⸣-[x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ma-a pi-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | UD 12-KAM₂\t ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 4' | id—da-at id—da-at [x x x x] | |
| 5' | a-na {uru}kal-ha [x x x] | |
| 6' | UD 13-KAM₂\t a-na {uru}[kal-ha] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 7' | TA@v DUMU-MEŠ—LUGAL DUMU-MEŠ—LUGAL it-[ta-lak] | |
| 8' | UD 14-KAM₂\t a-na {uru}ni-nu-[a] | |
| 9' | {1}{d}IM—MU—PAB e-⸢ta⸣-[rab] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | TA@v {1}aš-šur—PAB-ir {lu₂v}GAL—[SAG] {lu₂v}GAL—[SAG] | |
| 2 | {1}sa-si-i {1}ARAD—{d}⸢E₂⸣.[A id-du-bu-ub] | |
| 3 | ma-a a-du la AN.⸢MI⸣ [iš-kun-u-ni] | |
| 4 | lu-ši-ib a-bu-tu₂ [x x x] | |
| 5 | ina ⸢pa-ni⸣-šu₂-nu it-⸢ta⸣-[lak] | |
| 6 | [x x x x] ša {lu₂v}[x x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | ma-a ina E₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 2 | ha-ka-me TA@v ⸢ŠA₃⸣ [x x x] | |
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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