ABL 1229 (P334809)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1229 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334809 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1'1'–o 2'2' | [Your] s[ervant, NN. May] Nabû and [Marduk bless the king, my lord]. |
| Obverse [2:12] o 3'3'– | That cook [whom the king, my lord ...] sent m[e, saying]: "Show (him) the [...]" — I show[ed (him) the ......]. He said, "I [do] not [...]." The [...... which] he brought [......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | the gods [......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | He is a priest [......] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | of Ninev[eh ......] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | he has said [......] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | by my command [......] |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | to the [...]-official [......] |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | "If [......] |
| Reverse [8:10] r 9'9'–r 10'10' | to [......] |
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' | ⸢ARAD⸣-[ka {1}x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | {d}PA u {d}[AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu] | |
| 3' | {lu₂v}MU am-mi₃-⸢u₂⸣ [ša LUGAL be-li₂ x x x] | |
| 4' | u₂-še-bil-an-[ni ma-a x x x x x] | |
| 5' | kal-lim ⸢uk-tal⸣-[lim x x x x x x x x] | |
| 6' | ma-a la u₂-[x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 7' | iš-šu-ni [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 8' | ma-a ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 9' | u₃ [x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 10' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 11' | [x x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | DINGIR-MEŠ it-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | {lu₂}SANGA šu-u₂ [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | ša {uru}⸢NINA⸣ [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | iq-ṭi-bi [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 6' | ina pi-ia [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 7' | a-na {lu₂}[x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 8' | ma-a šum-⸢ma⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 9' | a-na sa-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 10' | [x x x x 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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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