ABL 1235 (P334812)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1235 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334812 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [I have] also [sp]oken [with the emissari]es of Maz[amua]. |
| Obverse [2:7] o 3'3'–o 7'7' | (Perhaps) the king, my lord, will say: "My servant has been negligent; he did not send (a report) earlier." |
| Obverse [7:16] o 8'8'– | Those who (came for) the treaty had not yet finished leaving the presence of the king, my lord, when the letter [...] before [...]. As soon as Urdu-Issar saw [...], he delivered it to hi[m]. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | [...] while the king, [my] lord [...] |
| Reverse [7:10] r 88–r 1010 | [...]-lešir |
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' | [x x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 2' | [TA@v {lu₂]}⸢MAH⸣-MEŠ ša₂ {kur}ma-⸢za⸣-[mu-a] | |
| 3' | [ad-du]-bu-ub-ma | |
| 4' | LUGAL be-li₂ i-qab-bi | |
| 5' | ma-a ur-di is-si-ia-aṭ | |
| 6' | ma-a la ih-ru-up | |
| 7' | la iš-pu-ra | |
| 8' | ša a-de-e u₂-di-na | |
| 9' | TA@v IGI LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| r | ||
| 1 | la e-te-eq-⸢qu⸣-[u-ni] | |
| 2 | la ug-da-ta-mu-[ru-u-ni] | |
| 3 | ša e-gir₂-tu ina ⸢IGI⸣ [x x x] | |
| 4 | a-du {1}ARAD—{d}15 te-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 5 | e-mur-u₂-[ni x x x] | |
| 6 | it-tan-na-aš₂-[šu x x x] | |
| 7 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ a-du LUGAL EN [x x x x] | |
| 8 | {1}x x]—SI.SA₂ [x x x x] | |
| 9 | [x x x]-ub {1}[x x x x x] | |
| 10 | [x x x] a-na [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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