ABL 1417 (P334895)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1417 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334895 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:12] o 1'1'– | [I se]nt [...] to the [...], saying: "[As regards ...], you are not free but shall arrange [......]. [Give] men to your official; one of the magnate[s] should quickly go with them and [keep] guard over the other bull colossus instead of the one which has been put in place. |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | And the bull coloss[i] which are in [... |
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' | [ina] ⸢UGU {lu₂v}x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [as]-⸢sa⸣-par nu-uk\td ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ⸢la⸣ ra-qa-a-⸢ka⸣ ina pa-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 4' | tu-ša₂-aṣ\td-bat nu-uk\td {lu₂v}⸢ERIM⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 5' | a-na {lu₂v}EN—pi-qi-te-ka {lu₂v}EN—pi-qi-te-ka [di-ni] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 6' | i-se-en TA@v\m ŠA₃ {lu₂v}GAL-[MEŠ] | |
| 7' | i-si-šu₂-nu ar₂-hiš lil-li-[ki] | |
| 8' | {na₄}{d}ALAD.{d}LAMA [o] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša-ni-u₂ ku-um\d ša\ydp ka-⸢ri⸣-[ru-ni] | |
| 2 | a-na ma-ṣar\m-te-šu bi [x x] | |
| 3 | u₃ {na₄}{⸢d}ALAD.{d}LAMA⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 4 | ⸢ša⸣ ina {⸢uru⸣}[x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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