ABL 1159 (P334763)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1159 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334763 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 2'b.e. 2'–b.e. 2'b.e. 2' | have not [...]...[...]; |
| Bottom [1:5] b.e. 3'3'– | 24 horses from the recruits have arrived; |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | 16 horses have not yet arrived: |
| Reverse [4:6] r 55–r 66 | a total of 58 Kushite horses have arrived. |
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] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 2' | la ⸢x⸣+[x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 3' | 24 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | TA@v {lu₂v}rak-su-ti | |
| 2 | it-tal-ku-u-ni | |
| 3 | 16 KUR-MEŠ u₂-di-i-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 4 | la il-lak-u-ni | |
| 5 | PAB 58 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 6 | {kur}ku-sa-a-a | |
| 7 | it-tal-ku-u-ni | |
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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