ABL 1407 (P334887)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1407 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334887 |
| Museum no. | BM 098775 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Kuyunjik (Nineveh) |
| Coordinates | 36.3587, 43.1519 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | A letter (to) Nabû-hamatua: your servant Kuškayu. Good health to my lord! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | Please present before Aššur-šarru-uṣur the case of the town in my hands which I told you about. |
| Obverse [8:19] o 99– | Let him qu[ick]ly send a letter to the city overseer or to the prefect, telling him to remove everybody from the orchard. |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | I will keep vigil there. |
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 | IM {1}{d}PA—ha-am-mat-u-a | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}ku-uš-ka-a.a | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na\dt EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | de-e-ni | |
| 5 | ša\dy URU ŠU.2-a.a | |
| 6 | ša\dy a-qa-ba-kan-ni | |
| 7 | ina pa-ni {1}aš-šur—MAN—PAB | |
| 8 | qi\m-bi | |
| 9 | e-gir₂-ti liš-pu-ru | |
| b.e. | ||
| 10 | ⸢ki ar₂-hiš⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-na\dt {lu₂vy}ša₂—UGU—URU | |
| 2 | šum₂\m-mu a-na\dt | |
| 3 | {lu₂vy}šak\t-nu | |
| 4 | liš\d-pu-ru\d | |
| 5 | ma-a LU₂ | |
| 6 | TA@v ŠA₃-bi | |
| 7 | {giš}SAR lu-še-li\d | |
| 8 | ⸢la⸣-ah-ri-di | |
| 9 | ina ŠA₃-bi-šu₂ | |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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