ABL 1419 (P334896)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1419 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334896 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [......] he is [...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | he [......] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [th]ey are bringing to him [......] |
| Obverse [4:6] o 5'5'–o 6'6' | [Pe]rhaps [the king, my lord], will say: |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | "[How] are you doing [the w]ork?" |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [...] to finish it |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [...] I am raising |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | [...] Adia |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | [...] bull colossi |
| Obverse [11:12] o 12'12'–o 12'12' | [I] shall h[aul ......] |
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' | [x x x x x] šu₂-u-tu₂ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] šu₂\d-u | |
| 3' | [x x x ub]-bal-u-ni-šu₂ | |
| 4' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x]-at | |
| 5' | [x x x is]—su\y-ur-ri | |
| 6' | [LUGAL be-li₂] i-qab-bi | |
| 7' | [ma-a a-ke-e] ⸢dul₆⸣-lu te-pa-aš₂ | |
| 8' | [x x x] ⸢a⸣-na ga-ma-ri-šu₂ | |
| 9' | [x x x] u₂-ša₂-da-ba | |
| 10' | [x x x] {⸢uru⸣}a-di-a | |
| 11' | [x x {na₄]}{⸢d⸣}ALAD.{d}LAMA-MEŠ | |
| 12' | [x x x a-ša₂]-⸢da⸣-da | |
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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