ABL 1160 (P334764)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1160 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334764 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [May they give to the king], [m]y [lor]d [......]. |
| Obverse [1:8] o 2'2'–o 8'8' | Th[is 5th day of the month ... belongs to] Kurba'il. [Noth]ing has been brought. [...], early in the morning [that which NN] brought he left before the gate. I did [not ...] or see [the ...] who brought it. |
| Reverse [1:7] r 2'2'–r 7'7' | I have completely carried out [the sacri]fices of the 5th day [fo]r the king, my lord, and his lord. I performed them [be]fore Aššur and the gods [of] the king, my lord. I also prepared to perfection the entire meal for the [5]th. |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [...] just as [NN ...] |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | [...] the father of the kin[g, my lord] |
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 LUGAL be]-⸢li₂-ia⸣ [lid-di-nu] | |
| 2' | [UD 05-KAM] an-⸢ni⸣-[u₂ ša {iti}x] | |
| 3' | [ša {uru]}kur-ba-il₃ ⸢šu⸣-[u] | |
| 4' | [me-me]-ni la na-ṣu-u₂-ni | |
| 5' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ kal-la-ma-ri | |
| 6' | [ša {1}x x]+⸢x⸣ na-ṣu-u₂-ni ina IGI KA₂.GAL ur-ta-me | |
| 7' | [x x x x] ša na-ṣa-an-ni | |
| 8' | [x x x x x] ⸢la⸣ e-mur-šu | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL be-li₂-ia u₃ EN-šu₂ | |
| 3' | {[udu]}⸢SISKUR⸣-MEŠ ša UD 05-KAM us-sa-lim | |
| 4' | [ina] ⸢pa⸣-an aš-šur DINGIR-MEŠ-ni | |
| 5' | [ša] LUGAL be-li₂-ia e-tap-⸢aš₂⸣ | |
| 6' | [nap]-tu-nu gab-bu ša UD 05-KAM] | |
| 7' | ⸢us⸣-sa-[lim] | |
| 8' | [x x]-ma ki-i ša {1}{d}[x x] | |
| 9' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ AD-šu₂ ša LUGAL [be-li₂-ia] | |
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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