ABL 1049 (P334699)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1049 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334699 |
| 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 Ṭab-šar-Aš]šur. [Good health] to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | They wrote to me from the Palace: "Let them cut out 150 basalt steps, load them up and bring them to Nineveh." |
| Obverse [8:15] o 99– | I have now cut and loaded them, [and am com]ing to Nineveh; [let the king, my lord, send word] whether I should bring them to the ba[throom] of the god itself [or ...... |
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}DUG₃—IM—aš]-⸢šur⸣ | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a]-⸢na LUGAL EN⸣-ia | |
| 4 | [TA@v\m E₂.GAL] i-sa-par-u-ni | |
| 5 | ina UGU-hi-ia ma-a 01 me 50 | |
| 6 | e-bir-tu₂ ša\yd {na₄}AD.BAR | |
| 7 | lib-tu-qu li\d-in-tu-hu-ni | |
| 8 | a-na {uru}NINA lu-bi-lu-ni | |
| 9 | an-nu-rig\p ab-ta-taq | |
| 10 | ⸢at⸣-ta-at-ha a-na {uru}NINA | |
| 11 | [al-la]-⸢ka⸣ šum₂-mu a-na | |
| 12 | [E₂—ra]-⸢ma⸣-ki [E₂—ra]-⸢ma⸣-ki ša\yd DINGIR šu₂-u | |
| 13 | [x x la]-⸢an⸣-tu-hu [x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 14 | [x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[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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