ABL 1055 (P334702)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1055 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334702 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | they are guard[ing ...] |
| Obverse [2:6] o 3'3'–o 6'6' | As to what the king, my lord wr[ote to me]: "Let them do [...] wor[k] until the 20th. [...] their work [...]." |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | On the 3rd day of the mon[th ...] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | they came [......] |
| Obverse [8:11] o 9'9'– | a bodyguard [...] |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | They will set to [work and do it]. |
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' | [x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | i-na-ṣu-⸢ru⸣ [x x x] | |
| 3' | ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš-[pur-an-ni ma-a] | |
| 4' | a-di UD 20-KAM₂ dul-[lu x x x] | |
| 5' | le-pu-šu₂ ma-a ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 6' | dul-la-šu₂-nu ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 7' | UD 03-KAM₂ ša {⸢iti⸣}[x x x x] | |
| 8' | it-tal-ku-u-ni [x x x x x] | |
| 9' | {lu₂v}qur-bu-ti [x x x x x] | |
| 10' | [x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | a-[x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | {⸢uzu⸣}[A₂].2-šu₂-⸢nu⸣ [ina UGU-hi] | |
| 3' | u₂-mu-du [ep-pu-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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