LAS 231 (P336236)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | LAS 231 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336236 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [...] will come out of [captivity] and inprisonment. |
| Reverse [6:13] r 77–r 1313 | [Naṣ]iru showed me thornbush; it resembles the shoot of a date palm about to burst out this very day, and at its tip it looks like a wire cable. [...] it is a tree indigenous to Assyria; it [also] is a tree indigenous to Babylonia. |
| Edge [0:2] e. 1e. 1–e. 22 | [If ......: the k]ing will have no opponents [......] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| b.e. | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣ ma ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x] ⸢lu⸣ ṣab [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x x]+⸢x ka⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 3 | [x x x x] i ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 4 | [x x x x]+⸢x ti lu x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 5 | [x x x] ⸢UGU⸣-hi-šu₂ ⸢ru⸣ [x x] | |
| 6 | [ina ki-li] u me-se-ri E₃ | |
| 7 | {1}na]-⸢ṣi⸣-ru {giš}NIM ši-i uk-ta-lim-an-ni | |
| 8 | [a]-⸢na⸣ pi-ri-iʾ-ti ša₂ {giš}GIŠIMMAR | |
| 9 | ša₂ u₂-mu-ma i-pa-ru-an-ni mu-šu-ul | |
| 10 | u₃ ina ap-pi-šu₂ ki-i gu-ha-ṣu e-piš | |
| 11 | [x x]+⸢x⸣-tu e-ṣu ša₂ KUR—aš-šur šu-u₂ | |
| 12 | [x x x] e-ṣu ša KUR—URI{ki} šu-u₂ | |
| 13 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ma ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ GABA.RI NU [TUK x x x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x] ⸢ša mir⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 3 | [x x x x x x]+⸢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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