ABL 1205 (P334792)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1205 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334792 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king, my lord]: your servant [Nabû-dammiq]. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:13] o 44–o 1313 | As to the trunks about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, they told me in the Palace: "I will send a man with you, he will go and select the trunks and trim them," up until now he has not showed up. I am waiting [for him] right now [...... |
| Reverse [1:7] r 2'2'–r 7'7' | ......] he should come; if there are any, we should trim them and lay them aside. Their water should be drawn out so that we can lift them for our use. |
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-ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{⸢d⸣}[PA—SIG₅-iq] | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na\td LUGAL be-[li₂-ia] | |
| 4 | ina UGU {giš}ši-ib-ša₂-te | |
| 5 | ša\yd LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 6 | ina E₂.GAL ⸢iq-ṭi₂⸣-bu-u-ni | |
| 7 | ma-a LU₂ i-si-ka | |
| 8 | a-ša₂\m-pa-ar ma-a il\t-lak | |
| 9 | {giš}ši-ib-ša₂-te e-mar | |
| 10 | i-ba-ta-qa a-da\d-kan-ni-ma | |
| 11 | la il\t-li\td-ka an-nu-rig | |
| 12 | [ina pa-ni-šu] a-da\d-gal | |
| 13 | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ | |
| 2' | ⸢li\td-li\td-ka⸣ šum₂-mu | |
| 3' | i-ba-ši ni-ib-tu\t-qu | |
| 4' | ni-ik-ru\d-ur A-MEŠ\m-šu₂-nu | |
| 5' | lu-un-ta-ta-zi-qu | |
| 6' | ba-si a-na\td pa-na\td-tu\t-un o | |
| 7' | ni-ma-ta-ah | |
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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