ABL 1305 (P334842)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1305 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334842 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | It is [now] raining on it. If ice does not form on it, we can leave it in mid-Shebat (XI). |
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]-ti\t | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x]-te | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [A.AN]-⸢MEŠ⸣ ina UGU-hi-šu₂ | |
| 2 | ⸢i⸣-za-nun\dm šum₂-mu\p qar-hu | |
| 3 | ina UGU-hi-šu₂ la iq-ru-hu | |
| 4 | ina meš\y-la-a-ti\t ša {iti}ZIZ₂ | |
| 5 | nu-ra-ma | |
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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