ABL 1191 (P334781)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1191 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334781 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king], my [lor]d: [your servant Nabû]-belu-ka''in. [Good health to the kin]g, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | [Perhaps the king], my [lord], says: "[What are y]ou doing?" — |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [...] I came |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | [...] together |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | [... wh]atever was boiled |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | [...] has been harvested. |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | I have blocked [...] |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | I am [in] Dur-Bel-ila'i. |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | [...] from Zabban |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313 | [...] iron sickle |
| Obverse [13:14] o 1414–o 1414 | [When] I [com]e from Lubda, |
| Obverse [14:15] o 1515–o 1515 | [...] their harvest |
| Obverse [15:17] o 1616–o 1717 | [...] the[re is] |
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⸣-ia₂ | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}{d}PA]—EN—GIN\d | |
| 3 | [lu-u DI-mu a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | [is—su-ri LUGAL] ⸢be⸣-li₂ i-qab-bi | |
| 5 | [ma-a mi₃-nu] ⸢te⸣-ep-pa-aš₂ | |
| 6 | [x x x x] at-tal-ka | |
| 7 | [x x x x]-pa-ni ki-i a-ha-a-a-iš\d | |
| 8 | [x x am]—mar ib-šal-u-ni | |
| 9 | [x x x] e\d-ṣi-di | |
| 10 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ta ap-ti\t-rik | |
| 11 | [ina {uru]}BAD₃—EN—DINGIR-a.a a-na-ku | |
| 12 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ TA@v\p {uru}zab-ban | |
| 13 | [x x] ⸢ša⸣ in-gal-lu AN.BAR | |
| 14 | [x x x]-ku TA@v {uru}lu-ub-da\d | |
| 15 | [x x x]-⸢an⸣-ni {še}BURU₁₄-šu₂-nu | |
| 16 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ i-ba-[aš₂-ši] | |
| 17 | [x x x x x] ⸢an⸣ [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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