ABL 0864 (P393911)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0864 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393911 |
| 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/saa20 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:15] o 1'1'–o 15'15' | [The king] per[forms] sheep offerings, goes to the hou[se of Šarrat]-nip[ha], strew[s] salt on the t[able], pour[s] out the libation b[owls, ..., burns] a female kid, brings Šarrat-[nipha] into the Road House, and begins the bath. |
| Obverse [15:22] o 16'16'– | After the bath he comes out and performs sheep offerings. The king goes straight to the palace. |
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' | {⸢udu⸣}[SISKUR-MEŠ] | |
| 2' | i-[na-sah] | |
| 3' | ina ⸢E₂⸣—{[d}GAŠAN]—KUR-[ha] | |
| 4' | il-[lak] | |
| 5' | MUN ina UGU {giš}⸢BANŠUR⸣ | |
| 6' | i-kar-⸢ra-ar⸣ | |
| 7' | pa-⸢gi-li⸣ | |
| 8' | u₂-ga-am-⸢mar⸣ | |
| 9' | [x] ⸢x⸣ [x] za am [x] | |
| 10' | {⸢udu}{mi₂}AŠ₂.QAR⸣ [GIBIL₂] | |
| 11' | {d}GAŠAN—[KUR-ha] | |
| 12' | ina ⸢E₂—ur-hi⸣ ⸢E₂—ur-hi⸣ | |
| 13' | u₂-še-rab | |
| 14' | ri-in-ku | |
| 15' | i-ša₂-kan | |
| 16' | TA UGU ri-in-ki | |
| 17' | u₂-ṣa-a | |
| 18' | {udu}SISKUR-MEŠ | |
| 19' | i-na-sah | |
| 20' | ⸢LUGAL⸣ ina E₂.GAL | |
| 21' | i-še-er | |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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