ABL 1039 (P334691)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1039 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334691 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To the king, my lord: your servant PN. Good health to the king, my lord! May] N[abû and Marduk bless] the k[ing, my lord]. |
| Obverse [5:9] o 66–o 99 | Concerning wh[at the king, my lord], wrote to me, I have examined [...; ... is] very [...] that [...]. |
| Obverse [9:11] o 1010–o 1111 | I have g[iven] orders that [...] be [...ed]. |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | He will go dow[n] to the river [...]. |
| Obverse [12:15] o 1313– | [To]mo[rro]w [...] |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | I will prepa[re the ritual] on [...]. |
| Reverse [3:6] r 4'4'–r 6'6' | He will perform it tomorrow evening. |
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}x x x x] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | {d}[PA u {d}AMAR.UTU] | |
| 5 | a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia lik-ru-bu] | |
| 6 | ina UGU-hi ⸢ša⸣ [LUGAL be-li₂] | |
| 7 | iš-pur-an-[ni x x] | |
| 8 | a-ta-mar ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 9 | a—dan-niš ša [x x] | |
| 10 | ṭe₃-e-mu ⸢as⸣-[sa-kan] | |
| 11 | mu-uk lu [x x] | |
| 12 | ina ID₂ ur-⸢rad⸣ [x x] | |
| 13 | [ina] ši-[a]-⸢ri x⸣+[x x] | |
| 14 | [x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | an [x x x x] | |
| 2' | ša ⸢UGU⸣ [x x x] | |
| 3' | u₂-ša₂-aṣ-[bat] | |
| 4' | a-na ši-a-[ri] | |
| 5' | ina nu-bat-⸢ti⸣ | |
| 6' | ep-pa-aš₂ | |
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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