ABL 1196 (P334786)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1196 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334786 |
| 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/saa05 · 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 ki]ng, [my lord]: your servant [Aššur-reṣuwa]. Good health t[o the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | They are building a fort [in ...] because of Kaqq[adanu], the governor. |
| Obverse [6:10] o 77–o 1010 | [He has seized] Urzana, [the king] of Muṣaṣi[r], ga[thered] his people, [and taken them] to Waisi. |
| Obverse [10:13] o 1111–o 1313 | Arizâ is on his way to [NN]. Ar[iye ...] |
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}aš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a] | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-[na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | {uru}HAL.ṢU [ina {uru}x x] | |
| 5 | TA@v\m pa-an {1}kaq-⸢qa⸣-[da-ni] | |
| 6 | {lu₂v}EN.NAM ep-⸢pu⸣-[šu] | |
| 7 | ⸢a-na⸣ {1}ur-za-a-ni [LUGAL] | |
| 8 | ⸢ša⸣ {kur}mu-ṣa-⸢ṣir\p⸣ [iṣ-ṣa-bat] | |
| 9 | {⸢lu₂vy⸣}UN-MEŠ-šu₂ ⸢ik⸣-[ti-rik] | |
| 10 | ⸢ina⸣ ŠA₃ u₂-e-si [u₂-se-rib] | |
| 11 | {1}a-ri-za-a ina ⸢UGU⸣ [x x x] | |
| 12 | ⸢i⸣-lak\d {1}a-⸢ri\t⸣-[e x x] | |
| 13 | [x x]+⸢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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