ABL 1081 (P334723)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1081 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334723 |
| 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 vizier, my lord: your servant Adâ. Good health to the Vizier, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:8] o 55–o 88 | As regards the news [of the Urarṭi]an about which my lord [wrote m]e, in [......] |
| Reverse [3:11] r 44– | On the night of [... he pla]ced [...]s within it; he is encamped in ..., within Uluaza; I have written to the vizier, my lord, where he intends to go. |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | I have written [all that I have heard ...] |
| Edge [1:2] e. 22–e. 22 | I have written [......]. |
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\t {lu₂v}SUKKAL | |
| 2 | BE-ia₂ ARAD-ka | |
| 3 | {1}a-da-a lu DI-mu | |
| 4 | a-na {lu₂v}SUKKAL BE-ia₂ | |
| 5 | ⸢ina UGU⸣ ṭe₃-me | |
| 6 | {[kur}URI]-⸢a⸣.a ša\dm be-li | |
| 7 | [iš-pur-an]-⸢ni⸣ ina ŠA₃-bi | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x]-⸢ri⸣ | |
| 3 | i-⸢na MI⸣ [x x x]-⸢MEŠ\t⸣ | |
| 4 | ina ŠA₃-bi-⸢šu⸣ [i-sa]-kan | |
| 5 | ina ŠA₃-bi i-⸢x x⸣-a.a | |
| 6 | ina ŠA₃-bi {kur}u₂\m-lu-a-za | |
| 7 | ša₂-ki-ni E₂ pa-ni-šu₂-ni | |
| r.e. | ||
| 8 | a-na\t {lu₂v}SUKKAL BE-ia₂ | |
| 9 | a-sap-ra | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x]-⸢ni⸣ a-sap-<ra> | |
| 2 | [x x x x x] ⸢a⸣-sap-ra | |
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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