ABL 1433 (P334904)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1433 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334904 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭ]ab-ṣill-E[šarra. Good health] to the ki[ng, my lord!] May [Aššur] and Mullissu bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:15] o 66–o 1515 | Ṣululu, a [messenger] of Sulu[...] the commandant of Borsippa, came to Birat; from Birat, he [was] escorted to Hinzanu by the messenger of the Biratean, and from Hinzanu they came to the Inner City. |
| Obverse [15:24] o 1616– | [......] with my m[esse]nger ...... |
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 EN-ia₂] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}DUG₃].⸢GA⸣—ṣil\m—⸢E₂⸣.[ŠAR₂.RA] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu] a-na\t ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia₂] | |
| 4 | [aš-šur {d]}NIN.LIL₂ a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL] | |
| 5 | EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | {1}ṣu-lu-lu {lu₂}[A—šip-ri] {lu₂}[A—šip-ri] {lu₂}[A—šip-ri] | |
| 7 | ša\d {1}su\t-lu-⸢x⸣ | |
| 8 | {lu₂v}ši-kin₂—ṭe₃-⸢me⸣ {lu₂v}ši-kin₂—ṭe₃-⸢me⸣ {lu₂v}ši-kin₂—ṭe₃-⸢me⸣ | |
| 9 | ša {uru}bur-si-⸢bi⸣ | |
| 10 | a-na {kur}bi-ra-a-te | |
| 11 | i-tal-ka TA\m {kur}bi-ra-[a-te] | |
| 12 | {lu₂v}A—šip-ri {lu₂v}A—šip-ri {lu₂v}A—šip-ri ša\d {kur}bi-rat-⸢a⸣.[a] | |
| 13 | i-si-šu₂ a-na {uru}he-en-⸢za⸣-[na i-tal-ka] | |
| 14 | TA@v\m {uru}he-en-za-na-na | |
| 15 | [a]-⸢na⸣ {uru}ŠA₃—URU | |
| 16 | ⸢i⸣-tal-ku-[u]-ni | |
| b.e. | ||
| 17 | i-na ⸢ŠU {lu₂⸣}[A—šip]-ri-ia₂ {lu₂⸣}[A—šip]-ri-ia₂ {lu₂⸣}[A—šip]-ri-ia₂ | |
| 18 | [x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | [x x x x x x]-e | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x] | |
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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