ABL 1367 (P334866)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1367 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334866 |
| 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/saa04 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | I ask you, Manlaharban: |
| Obverse [1:4] o 22–o 44 | This rumor of an insurrection which was reported to Assurbanipal, king of Assyria, son of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, thus: |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | "They are making an insurrection against you," |
| Obverse [5:7] o 66– | is it decreed and confirmed? |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | Will it happen? Is it true? Will they catch me? Will I die? Will they capture me in the course of it? |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | Disregard that a woman has written it and placed it before you. |
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 | {d}ma-an-la-ha-ar-ba-⸢an⸣ | |
| 2 | a-ša₂-ʾa-al-ka da-ba-bu | |
| 3 | an-ni-i ša si-hi ša a-na {1}aš-šur—DU₃—A | |
| 4 | MAN KUR—aš-šur{ki} DUMU {1}aš-šur—PAB—AŠ MAN KUR—aš-ma | |
| 5 | iq-bu-u-ni ma-a si-hu ina UGU-hi-ka | |
| 6 | ep-pu-šu₂ qa-bi-i ku-nu-u | |
| r | ||
| 1 | i-ba-aš₂-ši-i ket-tu-u o | |
| 2 | i-kaš-ša₂-du-ni-i a-mu-a-ta | |
| 3 | ina ŠA₃-bi i-ṣab-ba-tu-ni-i | |
| 4 | e-zib ša MI₂ ta-aš₂-ṭu-ru-ma | |
| 5 | ina ma-ha-ri-ka ta-aš₂-ku-nu | |
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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