ABL 1161 (P334765)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1161 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334765 |
| 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' | [...]ra said: "He [has go]ne (away)." Let the king ask [him]. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 3'3'–o 4'4' | Thanks to these gods, [they are] ca[lm], and they are alive due to the kindness of the king. |
| Obverse [4:13] o 5'5'– | Now then he has brought all the Cimmerians, and they are staying in Mindâ. True, they have [not] yet ... |
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]-ra iq-ṭi-bi [ma-a] | |
| 2' | [it]-⸢ta⸣-lak MAN liš-⸢al⸣-[šu₂] | |
| 3' | ina ŠA₃ DINGIR-MEŠ an-nu-te ⸢ni⸣-[x] | |
| 4' | ina ṭi-bu-te ša MAN bal-ṭu | |
| 5' | u₂-ma-a an-nu-ri | |
| 6' | {lu₂}gi-mir-ra-a.a | |
| b.e. | ||
| 7' | gab-bi-šu-nu it-ta-ṣa | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [i]-⸢na⸣ {uru}mi₃-in-da-a [o] | |
| 2 | iz-za-zu ket-tu₂ ud-di-ni | |
| 3 | ⸢TA@v⸣ MAN ⸢x x⸣-u₂-ni | |
| 4 | [x x]+⸢x⸣+[x]+⸢x⸣+[x x] ṭe₃ [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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