ABL 1353 (P334861)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1353 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334861 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king], my lord: [your servant Šamaš-r]e'uwa. [Good health to] the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44–o 99 | [Concerning what the king, my lord, wrote] to his servant: "Akkadayu [has pe]titioned me [about ... The ...] (and) the document of his lawsuit [are] at your disposal [...]. Are the [...] really [...]?" — |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | [......] this case |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | [......] Nabû-killan[ni] |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | [......] contracted |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313 | [......] his [do]cuments |
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]—⸢re⸣-ʾu-u₂-a | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na] LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | [ša LUGAL be-li₂ ina] UGU {lu₂v}ARAD-šu₂ | |
| 5 | [iš-pur-an-ni ma]-⸢a⸣ {1}ak\td-ka-da-a.a | |
| 6 | [ina UGU x x it]-⸢tah⸣-ra-an-ni | |
| 7 | [ma-a x x x] e-gir₂-tu₂ ša\tym de-ni-šu₂ | |
| 8 | [x x x x x] ma-a ina pa-ni-ka | |
| 9 | [x x x x x] ⸢ke⸣-e-tu\t-u₂ šu₂-nu | |
| 10 | [x x x x x] ⸢de⸣-e-ni an-ni-u₂ | |
| 11 | [x x x x x]-tu₂ {1}{d}PA—kil-an-[ni] | |
| 12 | [x x x x x x]-ʾu u₂-piš\p-u-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 13 | [x x x x x e]-⸢gir₂⸣-te-⸢šu₂⸣ [o] | |
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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