ABL 1158 (P334762)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1158 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334762 |
| 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 [1:8] o 2'2'– | The king, my lord, t[old me]: "On the 28th you will g[o] (and) ask!" Now, what is it that the king, my lord, [commands]? |
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' | ta-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | LUGAL be-⸢li iq⸣-[ṭi-bi-a] | |
| 3' | ma-a UD 28-KAM₂ tal-⸢la⸣-[ka] | |
| 4' | ta-ša₂-ʾa-a-⸢la⸣ | |
| 5' | u₂-ma-a mi-i-nu | |
| 6' | ša LUGAL be-li [o] | |
| 7' | [i-qab-bu-u-ni] | |
Sources & licences
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