ABL 1243 (P334815)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1243 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334815 |
| 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 [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | [To the king, my lord: your servant, NN. Good health to the king, my lord. May Bel] and Na[bû] grant l[ong] days, everlasting years, happiness, and physical well-being to the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [8:13] o 99– | The middle entrance to the courtyard of the temple of Adad which they dismantled is [...]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | of their [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | those who enter [......] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | not [......] |
| Reverse [4:6] r 55–r 66 | to (the city of) [...] |
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 be-li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}x x x] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 4 | {[d}EN] {⸢d}AG⸣ UD-MEŠ ⸢ar⸣-[ku-u-te] | |
| 5 | MU.AN.NA-<MEŠ> da₃-ra-a-te | |
| 6 | ṭu-ub ŠA₃-bi | |
| 7 | ṭu-ub UZU-MEŠ | |
| 8 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia liš-ru-ku | |
| 9 | ne₂-ru-bu qa-ba-si-u₂ | |
| 10 | ša TUR₃ ša E₂—{d}IM | |
| 11 | ša u₂-pa-ṭi-ru-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | mu-[x x i]-⸢ba⸣-aš₂-ši | |
| 2 | ša [x x x x]-šu₂-nu | |
| 3 | TU-MEŠ [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 4 | la-a ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 5 | a-na {uru}[x x x]-pa | |
| 6 | ⸢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)
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