ABL 1178 (P334774)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1178 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334774 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | [To the king], my [lord: your servant Ama]r-ili. |
| Obverse [2:9] o 33–o 99 | [As to the ... wall behind] (the image) of Ishtar [of which the king my lord] told (me): "Place the symbol [where it] goes up and [...]; if the wall is leaning, write me" — |
| Obverse [9:18] o 1010–o 1818 | Now on the 4th, the wall caved in by itself. [PN] and the master-builders [came] to see it, and they said: "[The wall] is ruined; let them remove [...] and change [...]. The [...] that the king ord[ered ...]." |
| Obverse [18:25] o 1919– | A wall which [...] which the king [...] knows! [All] is well, [the king my lord can be] gl[ad]. |
| Reverse [14:16] r 1515–r 1616 | He should go [...]. [As far as] the wall behind the god is concerned, the king my lord can be glad. |
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 EN]-ia | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}a]-⸢mar⸣—DINGIR | |
| 3 | [ina UGU E₂.SIG₄ ta]-⸢bi⸣-u₂ | |
| 4 | [ša ku-tal] {d}15 | |
| 5 | [ša LUGAL EN] iq-bu\tdp-u₂-ni | |
| 6 | [ma-a E₂] e-lu-u₂-ni | |
| 7 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni ma-a si-im-tu₂ | |
| 8 | [šu]-⸢uk⸣-na ma-a šum₂-mu E₂.SIG₄ | |
| 9 | [e]-mi₃-di\d šup-ra-a-ni | |
| 10 | [u₂]-ma-a an-nu-rig E₂.⸢SIG₄⸣ | |
| 11 | [UD] 04-KAM₂ ra-ma-an-šu₂ | |
| 12 | ⸢id⸣-di\d-ʾi-ib {1}⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 13 | {lu₂}e-tin-na-ti\t [it-tal-ku-ni] | |
| 14 | e-ta-am-ru ⸢ma⸣-[a E₂.SIG₄] | |
| 15 | ma-aq-tu šu-⸢u₂⸣ [x x x] | |
| 16 | li-ih-si-pu\tp ⸢ma⸣-[a x x x] | |
| 17 | lu-pi-hu ma-a ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 18 | ša\m LUGAL iq\d-[bu-u₂-ni] | |
| 19 | E₂.SIG₄ ša\m a-⸢na⸣ [x x x] | |
| 20 | ša\m LUGAL [x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 21 | u₂-du-ni DI-⸢mu⸣ [a—dan-niš] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | lib-[bu ša LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 2 | lu-[u ṭa-ab x x x x] | |
| 3 | ⸢x⸣+[x x] e-mid [x x x] | |
| 4 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ {1}{d}[x x x] | |
| 5 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ li [x x] | |
| 6 | [x x x x]-ta-⸢an⸣-[x x] | |
| 7 | [x x x]-ni is-si-[x x] | |
| 8 | [x x x] ina u₂-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 10 | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 11 | [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 12 | {⸢lu₂v⸣}[x x x x x lil]-⸢li⸣-ka | |
| 13 | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 14 | [x x x x x x x] UD-MEŠ | |
| 15 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ li-⸢lik⸣ | |
| 16 | [ina UGU] ⸢E₂⸣.SIG₄ ša\dm ku-tal DINGIR | |
| 17 | [lib-bu ša] LUGAL EN-ia lu ṭa-ab | |
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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