ABL 1188 (P334779)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1188 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334779 |
| 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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [... t]his [......] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [...] him. Let the king [do] a[s he deems best]. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 3'3'–o 4'4' | [Perhap]s the king, my lord, will sa[y: "Where] is it [deposit]ed?" It is [...] in the storehouse of [NN]. |
| Obverse [4:11] o 5'5'–o 11'11' | [Pre]viously, when [NN] was living [ther]e, his messenger s[poke] there with my messenger [abo]ut the earlier matters, a[bout the troops] he had requested, saying, "[Let] them give me [...] m[en], and I will g[o and] conquer [......]." |
| Obverse [11:12] o 12'12'–o 12'12' | [...] his servant [......] |
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]-ni-u ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-šu₂ LUGAL\p ki-i ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [i—su]-⸢ri⸣ LUGAL\p be-li₂ i-qa-[bi ma-a a-a-ka] | |
| 4' | [kar]-⸢ra⸣-at ina E₂—ŠU.2 E₂—ŠU.2 ša\d {1}[x x x x] | |
| 5' | [ina] ⸢ti⸣-ma-li šal-ši—UD-me ki-⸢i⸣ {1}x x x] | |
| 6' | [ina ŠA₃]-⸢bi⸣ kam-mu-su-ni ina ŠA₃-bi [x x x] | |
| 7' | {[lu₂v]}A—KIN-šu₂ {[lu₂v]}A—KIN-šu₂ TA@v {lu₂v}A—KIN-ia {lu₂v}A—KIN-ia ⸢id⸣-[du-bu-ub] | |
| 8' | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ di-ib-bi pa-ni-u-te ina ⸢UGU⸣ [e-mu-qi] | |
| 9' | [ša] e\d-ri-šu₂-ni ma-a {lu₂v}[ERIM-MEŠ x x x] | |
| 10' | [li]-di-nu-ni la-⸢al⸣-[lik x x x x x] | |
| 11' | [la]-⸢ak⸣-šu-du ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 12' | [x x x] ARAD-šu₂ [x x x x 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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