ABL 1446 (P334912)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1446 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334912 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1'1'–o 3'3' | ...... the Palace Herald and] the Chief [...] are keeping the boats for [them]selves. |
| Obverse [3:10] o 4'4'– | Let the king, my lord, send word that they bring (boats) [to me] either from the Palace Herald or from the Ch[ief ...] so that I can get the stone slabs across. |
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' | {⸢lu₂vy}GAL—x-x⸣+[x x] | |
| 2' | {giš}MA₂-MEŠ\m a-na ra-ma-⸢ni⸣-[šu₂-nu] | |
| 3' | u₂\m-ka-lu LUGAL EN | |
| 4' | liš\d-pu-ra šum₂-mu | |
| 5' | TA@v\m {lu₂vy}NIGIR₂—E₂.[GAL] {lu₂vy}NIGIR₂—E₂.[GAL] | |
| 6' | šum₂-mu TA@v\m {lu₂vy}⸢GAL⸣—[x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | lu-u-qar-ri-⸢bu⸣ | |
| 2 | {na₄}I.DIB-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 3 | ⸢lu⸣-[še]-bir | |
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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