ABL 1033 (P334687)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1033 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334687 |
| 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 [...]. Good hea[lth to the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:12] o 44–o 1212 | As to [PN] the servant of [Adad]-remanni about whom the king my lord wrote to me: "I gave him to Nabû-šumu-iddina but he took his clothes and his ... and fled; send (word) that the should be arrested wherever he is and brought to me!" — |
| Obverse [12:15] o 1313–o 1515 | he [went] to Barhalza and appealed [to me ...] with a messenger [...... |
| Reverse [3:6] r 4'4'–r 6'6' | I have [put] his hands and fe[et] in irons and sent 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 be-li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD-⸢ka⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 3 | lu DI\d-[mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | ina UGU {1}[x x x x x] | |
| 5 | {lu₂v}ARAD ša\d {1}{d⸣}[IM]—⸢rem₂⸣-an-ni | |
| 6 | ša\dm LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 7 | ma-a a-na {1}{d}AG—MU—AŠ | |
| 8 | at-ti\t-di-in-šu ma-a ku-zip-pi-šu | |
| 9 | {kuš}E₂.UŠ-MEŠ\m-šu₂ it-ti\t-ši | |
| 10 | ih-ti\t-liq ma-a šu-up\p-ru | |
| 11 | be₂-et šu-tu₂-u-ni li-iṣ-⸢bu⸣-tu | |
| 12 | lu-bi-lu-ni-[šu₂ o] | |
| 13 | a-na\y {kur}bar-hal-za [it-tal-ka] | |
| 14 | ⸢it⸣-ta-ah-⸢ra⸣-[an-ni] | |
| 15 | [ina] ⸢ŠU⸣.2 {⸢lu₂v}A—KIN⸣ {⸢lu₂v}A—KIN⸣ [x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | lik-[x x x x x] | |
| 3' | a.a-⸢i⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 4' | A₂.2-MEŠ ⸢GIR₃⸣.2-MEŠ] | |
| 5' | si-par-ri AN.BAR a-[sa-kan-šu₂] | |
| 6' | ina UGU LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 7' | us-se-bi-la-aš₂-šu | |
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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