ABL 1234 (P334811)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1234 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334811 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | To the king, my lord: your servant Iqbi-Aššur, the scribe of Kar-Shalmaneser. Good health to the king, my lord! [May DNN bless] the king, my lord. [May] Bel and Nabû, [and the gods of heav]en greatly [... the king, my lord]! |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | are killing me [by] (giving out) bribes. |
| Reverse [3:6] r 4'4'–r 6'6' | May my [lor]d appoint me, so I can settle (this lawsuit) with them in the presence of the king. Have I been removed [fro]m my duty? The king, my lord, should know (this). |
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}iq-bi—aš-šur {lu₂}A.BA | |
| 3 | ša {uru}KAR—{1}{d}DI-ma-nu—MAŠ | |
| 4 | lu šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | [x x x] a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 6 | [lik-ru-bu] {d}EN u {d}AG | |
| 7 | [x x x x AN]-e a—dan-niš | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x]-MEŠ ki | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x] ⸢x x⸣-te-te | |
| 3' | [ina] šul-⸢ma⸣-na-te i-du-ku-u-ni | |
| 4' | [be]-li₂ lip-qi₂-dan-ni ina IGI LUGAL | |
| 5' | is-si-šu-nu lu-ki-ii-ni | |
| 6' | ⸢TA⸣ il-ki-ia šat-⸢bu⸣-a-ku-u | |
| 7' | LUGAL be-li₂ lu u₂-di | |
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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