ABL 1209 (P334794)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1209 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334794 |
| 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 lo]rd: your servant Ilu-iqbi. |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44–o 99 | I have set up the panther which is on the right side of the god; it stands firmly on the ped[estal]. The ki[ng, my lord, c]an be glad. |
| Obverse [9:14] o 1010–o 1414 | I shall release ...[...] to the god [...... |
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] | |
| 2 | [be]-⸢li₂-ia⸣ | |
| 3 | ARAD-ka {1}DINGIR—iq-⸢bi⸣ | |
| 4 | {⸢d⸣}nam-ru\d | |
| 5 | ⸢ša⸣ i-na ZAG ša\dm DINGIR | |
| 6 | ⸢az\td⸣-[za]-qa-⸢ap⸣ | |
| 7 | i-na ⸢UGU⸣ KI.[TUŠ] | |
| 8 | ku-u₂-nu ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 9 | ⸢ŠA₃⸣-[bu] ⸢ša\dm LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] | |
| 10 | ⸢lu⸣-[u] DUG₃.GA [o] | |
| 11 | ⸢u₃⸣ pi ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 12 | u₂-pa-⸢ṭar⸣ [x x x] | |
| 13 | a-na {d}⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 14 | [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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