ABL 1348 (P334857)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1348 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334857 |
| 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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To the king, my lord: your servant Šamaš-belu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! The city of Der and the fort are w]ell. |
| Obverse [5:11] o 66–o 1111 | Perhaps [the king, my lord], will say: "Wha[t] is the news of the king of Elam?" The king of Elam is in the mountain, in the town Burati. He has not set out, he is still there. |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | [... to] the king, my lord |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313 | [......], saying: |
| Obverse [13:14] o 1414–o 1414 | [...... u]s |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [......] of Assyria |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......] are attacking |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [......] to the guard |
| Reverse [3:5] r 4'4'–r 5'5' | [......] entered |
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}{d}UTU—EN—PAB] | |
| 3 | [lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 4 | [DI-mu a-na {uru}de-ri] | |
| 5 | ⸢DI-mu⸣ [a-na {uru}HAL.ṢU] | |
| 6 | i—su\t-ri [LUGAL be-li₂] | |
| 7 | i-qa-bi ma-a mi-⸢i⸣-[nu] | |
| 8 | ṭe₃-mu ša\m LUGAL {kur}NIM.MA{ki} | |
| 9 | LUGAL {kur}NIM.MA{ki} ina KUR-u₂\m | |
| 10 | {uru}bu\t-ra-a-ti\t šu-u₂\m | |
| 11 | ⸢la⸣ u₂-na-me-sa\p ina ŠA₃-bi-ma šu-u₂\m | |
| 12 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 13 | [x x x x x x x] ma-a | |
| 14 | [x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣-a-ši | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x] ⸢ša\m⸣ KUR—aš-šur | |
| 2' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ i-za-qu-pu-up | |
| 3' | [x x x x x]-u a-na EN.NUN\m | |
| 4' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-bu\t e-tar-ba\t | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ mu [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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