ABL 1103 (P334738)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1103 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334738 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:13] o 2'2'– | The day when Ištar went up (in procession) on the w[all], the bearers came up and I saw them in the temple. They are all common men. There is not one from Nineveh's old families. Those who served your father are all in Calah. |
| Reverse [3:6] r 44–r 66 | Now then [I hav]e written to the king, my lord. To the chief [...] |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | (r 7) (Rest destroyed) |
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 x x x x] | |
| 2' | UD-mu ša {d}15 ina UGU ⸢E₂⸣.[SIG₄] | |
| 3' | te-lu-u-ni | |
| 4' | {lu₂v}na-ši-ia-ni e-ta-lu-u-u-ni | |
| 5' | ina E₂—DINGIR E₂—DINGIR a-ta-mar-šu₂-nu | |
| 6' | gab-bu sa-ak-lu-te šu₂-nu | |
| b.e. | ||
| 7' | me-me-ni TA@v ŠA₃-bi qi-in-na-te | |
| 8' | ša {uru}NINA la-bi-ru-te | |
| r | ||
| 1 | la-aš₂-šu₂ ša ina ŠA₃-bi AD-ka | |
| 2 | iz-zi-zu-u-ni | |
| 3 | gab-bu ina {uru}kal-ha šu₂-nu | |
| 4 | u₂-ma-a an-nu-rig a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 5 | [as]-⸢sap⸣-ra a-na {lu₂v}⸢GAL x⸣ [x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 6 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ŠA₃ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 7 | [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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