ABL 1225 (P334806)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1225 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334806 |
| 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 | [T]o the k[ing, my lord: your servant NN. G]ood health t[o the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:11] o 44–o 1111 | [Co]ncerning the river T[a...] about which the king, my lord, [wrote to me], the river is all rig[ht]. I have bloc[ked it ...]. And where [there were ...s] of the It[u'eans] and of the Kipr[ê], I have captu[red them]. |
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}{d}[x x x] | |
| 3 | ⸢lu⸣-u DI-mu a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | ⸢TA@v⸣ UGU {id₂}⸢ta⸣-[x x] | |
| 5 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ [iš-pur-an-ni] | |
| 6 | ID₂ ta-ri-[iṣ x x x] | |
| 7 | ak\d-te-is-[ir-šu₂] | |
| 8 | u₃ be₂-et [x x] | |
| 9 | ša {lu₂v}i-⸢tu⸣-[a.a] | |
| 10 | ša {lu₂v}kip-⸢re⸣-[e] | |
| 11 | uṣ-ṣa-⸢bi⸣-[su-nu] | |
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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