ABL 1469 (P334922)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1469 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334922 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:2] r 1'1'–r 2'2' | "[If] you write, we shall leave [PN] as city ruler in [...]." |
| Reverse [2:11] r 3'3'–r 11'11' | [I am writing to you] right now: when you appoint Ašpabara [......], and Lutû [..., ...] their people; nobody should make [......]! As long as th[ey] live, [......] brought to them [...... |
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' | an [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ma [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ma [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | ⸢ar₂⸣-[x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | šum₂-[ma x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 6' | sa-[x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [šum-ma] ta-šap-⸢pa-ra⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [a]-⸢na⸣ {lu₂v}EN—URU-u₂-ti\t {lu₂v}EN—URU-u₂-ti\t ⸢a⸣-[na x x x] | |
| 3' | nu-ram-ma u₂-ma-a an-nu-[rig a-sap-rak-ku-nu] | |
| 4' | ki-i {1}iš-pa—ba-ra ⸢a⸣-[na {lu₂v}EN—URU-u₂-ti] {lu₂v}EN—URU-u₂-ti] | |
| 5' | ta-paq-qi-da-a-ni ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 6' | u₃ {1}lu-tu-u₂ ⸢i⸣-[x x x x x] | |
| 7' | UN-MEŠ-šu₂-nu ta-na-[x x x x x] | |
| 8' | me-me-ni la ep-pa-[aš₂ x x x x x] | |
| 9' | am—mar UD-me-šu₂ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 10' | na-ṣa-aš₂-šu₂-⸢nu⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 11' | [nu]-šal-⸢lam⸣ [x 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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