ABL 1298 + (P334839)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1298 + |
|---|---|
| ID | P334839 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my [lord]: your servant B[el]-iddina. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:10] o 44–o 1010 | As to the news of the Urarṭian, he set out [on the ... d]ay and was making sacrifices in the city of A[... on the ...th] wi[th his magnates], (when) a me[ssage from] the Hubuškian [came] to him: |
| Obverse [10:12] o 1111–o 1212 | "[...]...[......] |
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}⸢EN⸣—AŠ | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | ina UGU ṭe₃-me | |
| 5 | ša\dtm {kurp}URI\t-a.a ⸢UD⸣ [x]+⸢x x⸣ | |
| 6 | u₂-ta-me-⸢ši⸣ [x x x] | |
| 7 | ina ŠA₃-bi {uru}a-[x x x] | |
| 8 | {udu}ni-qi a-⸢di⸣ {[lu₂v}GAL-MEŠ-šu₂] | |
| 9 | e-pa-ša\dm ši-[pir-tu ša] | |
| 10 | {kurd}hu-ub-ka-a.[a ta-tal-ka] | |
| 11 | [ina] pa-ni-šu₂ ma-a [x x] | |
| 12 | [x] ⸢a⸣-ba\d-ta-[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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