ABL 1048 (P334698)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1048 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334698 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [To the king, my lord: your servant NN]. Good health [to the king, my lord]! May Aššur, Bel, and [Nabû] giv[e you length of days]! |
| Obverse [4:7] o 55–o 77 | [... is] in Muṣ[aṣir]; [the rest of] the governors [......]. |
| Obverse [7:13] o 88– | As to the news of the Urarṭ[ian], the brother of Urzan[a] has c[ome t]o Šulmu-beli, [saying]: "He has returned [...]" |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | I shall set it up [in the ...] of the [...] palace. |
| Reverse [2:5] r 3'3'–r 5'5' | I am in the city of [...], working on the [...]. The ki[ng, my lord], can be glad. |
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 x] | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu [a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | aš-šur EN {⸢d⸣}[PA UD-MEŠ GID₂.DA-MEŠ] | |
| 5 | li-di\d-⸢nu⸣-[nik-ka x x x x] | |
| 6 | ina {kur}mu-uṣ\p-[ṣa-ṣir šu-u x x x] | |
| 7 | {lu₂}EN.NAM-MEŠ\m [x x x x x] | |
| 8 | UGU ṭe₃-e-me ša {kur}URI\d-[a.a] | |
| 9 | ŠEŠ-šu₂ ša {1}ur-za-⸢na⸣-[a] | |
| 10 | [ina] ⸢IGI⸣ {1}DI-mu—EN ⸢i⸣-[tal-ka] | |
| 11 | [ma-a] ⸢i⸣-su-hu-[ru x x x] | |
| 12 | [x x] ⸢pa⸣-ni ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x] ⸢i na x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 2' | ⸢ša⸣ E₂—{giš}mu-⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 3' | a-za-qa\d-ap ina {uru}⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 4' | a-na-ku dul₆-lu ša\d ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 5' | e-pa-aš₂ lib-bu\tp ša\d ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] | |
| 6' | lu DUG₃.GA [o] | |
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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