ABL 1376 (P334873)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1376 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334873 |
| Museum no. | BM 096686 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To the king, our lord: your servants Nabû-zeru-lešir and Adad-šumu-uṣur. Good health to the king, our lord! May Nabû and [Marduk] ble[ss] the king, [our lo]rd! |
| Obverse [7:15] o 88–o 1515 | We went with N[N] and N[N] to the palace [of...]. The mausoleum [...] of the re[ar ...] |
| Reverse [1:4] r 2'2'–r 4'4' | If [the king, our lord, orders, we will make] a tomb [and put the substitute] king in it. |
| Reverse [4:12] r 5'5'–r 12'12' | (r 5) (Break) |
| Reverse [12:13] r 13'13'–r 13'13' | What [is it that the king], our [lord], orders? |
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-li-ni | |
| 2 | ARAD-MEŠ-ka {1}{d}PA—NUMUN—GIŠ | |
| 3 | {1}{d}IM—MU—PAB | |
| 4 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ni | |
| 5 | {d}AG u {d}[AMAR.UTU] | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL be-[li-ni] | |
| 7 | li-ik-⸢ru⸣-[bu] | |
| 8 | a-ni-ni {1}⸢di⸣-[x x x] | |
| 9 | u₃ {1}di-[x x x x x] | |
| 10 | i-na E₂.GAL [x x x x] | |
| 11 | ni-ta-lak [x x x x] | |
| 12 | ma-ṣa-al-lu [x x x] | |
| 13 | ša ku-⸢tal⸣-[li x x x] | |
| 14 | i-na [x x x x x] | |
| 15 | ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ni-⸢da⸣-[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | šum-ma [LUGAL EN-ni i-qab-bi] | |
| 3' | KI.MAH [ne₂-ep-pa-aš₂] | |
| 4' | LUGAL [pu-hi ina] ŠA₃-⸢bi⸣ [ni-šak-kan] | |
| 5' | u₂-la-a [x x x x x] | |
| 6' | be₂-et ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 7' | lu-u₂ [x x x x x] | |
| 8' | šum-ma [x x x x x] | |
| 9' | i-na [x x x x x] | |
| 10' | la ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 11' | i-na [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 12' | la [x x x x x x] | |
| 13' | mi-i-ni [ša₂ LUGAL EN]-ni | |
| 14' | i-qab-[bu]-u₂-ni-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
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