ABL 1354 (P334862)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1354 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334862 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, [my lord]: your servant [Bel-iqiša]. Good health to [the king, my lord! May] Nabû and Marduk very great[ly bless the king, my lord]. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | The shepherds of [...] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | about whom the king, my lord, [wrote to me] — |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | Nabû-šezib [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | The king [... said] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | to [......]: |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | "Do [......]!" |
| Reverse [5:7] r 6'6'–r 7'7' | [Now then] I am appealing [to the king], my lord: [may] the king, my lord, [...]! |
| Reverse [7:9] r 8'8'– | Why [does] Nabû-šezib [... h]is lord's household? |
| Right [0:2] r.e. 9r.e. 9–r.e. 1010 | Tomorrow the king will hear (about it), and the king will k[ill me] on account of the fact that I have not consumed [...]. |
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}{d}[EN—BA-ša₂] | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na [LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | {d}AG u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU [a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 5 | a—dan-niš a—dan-[niš lik-ru-bu] | |
| 6 | {lu₂}SIPA-MEŠ ša [x x x x] | |
| 7 | ša LUGAL ⸢EN⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 8 | {1}{d}PA—še-zib [x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ši-[x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | e-[x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | LUGAL [x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | a-na [x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | ma-a [x x x x x x] | |
| 6' | e-pu-[uš an-nu-rig a-na LUGAL] | |
| 7' | EN-ia at-ta-har LUGAL EN [x x x] | |
| 8' | a-ta-a {1}{d}PA—še-zib E₂—EN-MEŠ-⸢šu₂⸣ E₂—EN-MEŠ-⸢šu₂⸣ [x x] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 9 | ina ši-ia-a-ri LUGAL i-šam-[me] | |
| 10 | ina UGU ša la a-kul-u-ni [x x] | |
| 11 | LUGAL ina UGU-hi id-[du-kan-ni] | |
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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