ABL 1197 (P334787)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1197 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334787 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [To the king, my lord: your servant NN. Good health to the king], my [lord]. |
| Obverse [1:4] o 2'2'–o 4'4' | The temple[s] of Kili[zi] have been provid[ed with...]s. |
| Obverse [4:11] o 5'5'– | (In) the month of Iyyar (II), on the 6th day, Adad will set out in procession and take up residence in the Akitu house. |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44 | The king, my lord, [will make] the exorcist and the lamentation priest [g]o, [and they will ta]ke Adad [...] into his temple. |
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⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2' | [EN]-ia E₂—[DINGIR-MEŠ] E₂—[DINGIR-MEŠ] | |
| 3' | ša {uru}kal₃-[zi x]-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 4' | šak-⸢nu⸣ | |
| 5' | {iti}GUD UD 06-KAM | |
| 6' | {d}IM i-te-bi | |
| 7' | ina ŠA₃ a-ki-te | |
| 8' | u₂-ša₂-ab | |
| b.e. | ||
| 9' | {lu₂v}MAŠ.MAŠ {lu₂v}UŠ.KU | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ | |
| 2 | [u₂-ša₂]-⸢lak⸣ {d}IM | |
| 3 | [x x]-⸢ru⸣ ina E₂-šu | |
| 4 | [u₂-še]-⸢ru⸣-bu | |
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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