ABL 1144 (P334753)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1144 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334753 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1'1'–o 2'2' | saying: "I [will ...] in the palace. One of you [...]." |
| Obverse [2:6] o 3'3'– | In the reign of your father, (when) our grandfather went up (there), they revered the king. |
| Reverse [1:6] r 22–r 66 | Last year, (when) he passed by, they revered the king, my lord. But now they ref[use] to rev[ere] the king. |
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' | ma-a ina E₂.GAL a-⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2' | 01-en ina ŠA₃-bi-ku-nu at-[x x x] | |
| 3' | ina ŠA₃ AD-ka AD—AD-ni AD—AD-ni | |
| 4' | i-te-te-li | |
| r | ||
| 1 | LUGAL ip-ta-al-hu | |
| 2 | ina šad-daq-diš i-ti-te-iq | |
| 3 | LUGAL be-li₂ ip-ta-al-hu | |
| 4 | u₂-ma-a la im-[ma-gur₂] | |
| 5 | LUGAL la i-⸢pal⸣-[lu-hu] | |
| 6 | [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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