ABL 1299 (P334840)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1299 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334840 |
| 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 [3:8] o 4'4'– | [... fr]om the city [GN] he came to the In[ner City ...]. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | He wen[t] to m[y] brother [...]. |
| Reverse [2:5] r 33–r 55 | He retu[rned ...] |
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] | |
| 2' | [x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ŠA₃ [x x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x] ⸢TA@v⸣ {uru}⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 5' | a-na {uru}⸢ŠA₃⸣—[URU] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 6' | it-tal-ka [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-na ŠEŠ-⸢ia⸣ [x x] | |
| 2 | i-ta-⸢lak⸣ [x x x] | |
| 3 | is-su-[hur x x x] | |
| 4 | ih-[x x x x x] | |
| 5 | ⸢ra⸣-[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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