ABL 1072 (P334717)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1072 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334717 |
| 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/saa17 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | Your servant Naṣib-il: I would gladly die for my lord! Say to the king, my lord: |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | (As to) [what I] earlier [w]rote to [the king]: "[... hand]s |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | [...] have sent here |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | [...] their [...] |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | [...] their [...] |
| Reverse [1:9] r 2'2'–r 9'9' | I am (herewith) sending to the king [NN], son of [DN-ah]a-iqiša, [the city]-lord of Kapar, together with his brothers. With him, I am sending you Nergal-eṭir, the city-lord of Paddanu. |
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 | ARAD-ka {1}na-ṣib—DINGIR | |
| 2 | a-na di-na-an be-li₂-ia lul-lik | |
| 3 | ⸢um⸣-ma-a a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia-ma | |
| 4 | [ša₂] ⸢ina⸣ mah-ri-ia a-na | |
| 5 | [LUGAL al]-tap-ra um-ma | |
| 6 | [x x x x x].2-MEŠ | |
| 7 | [x x x x x x x]-ni | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x] ⸢il⸣-tap-ra-u₂-nu | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 10 | [x x x x x x x x]-ti | |
| 11 | [x x x x x x x]-⸢ta⸣-šu₂-nu | |
| 12 | [x x x x x x x x x x]-šu₂-nu | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x]-⸢ra⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ DUMU | |
| 3' | {1}{d}x]—⸢ŠEŠ⸣—BA-ša₂ | |
| 4' | {[lu₂}ša₂—UGU]—URU ša₂ {uru}ka-par | |
| 5' | [o] a-di ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šu₂ a-na | |
| 6' | pa-ni LUGAL al-tap-ra | |
| 7' | {1}{d}U.GUR—KAR-ir {lu₂}EN—URU {lu₂}EN—URU | |
| 8' | ša₂ {uru}pa-da-a-ni | |
| 9' | it-ti-šu₂ | |
| 10' | al-tap-rak-ka | |
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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