K 04534 (P395621)
Administrative Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 04534 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395621 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative Letter |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa21 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | I wr[ote......] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | and as [......] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | in his hands [......] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | the bow in his hand [......] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | who [...] the bow in his hand [...] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | and [...] their protection [...] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | For the second time [......] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | I let them liv[e ......] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | I placed them [......] |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | no[t] even the heaven [......] |
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' | ⸢kar-me⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2' | al-ta-⸢kan⸣ [x x x] | |
| 3' | u ki-i a-⸢ga⸣-[a x x] | |
| 4' | ina ŠU.2-šu₂ la ⸢i⸣-[x x x] | |
| 5' | {giš}BAN ina ŠU.2 bu ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 6' | ša {giš}BAN ina ŠU.2-šu₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 7' | u₃ ki-din-us-su-[nu x x] | |
| 8' | ša₂-ni-ia-aʾ-nu [x x x] | |
| 9' | ub-tal-li-su-[nu-ti x x] | |
| 10' | al-ta-kan-šu₂-nu-[ti x x] | |
| 11' | ša₂-⸢mu⸣-um-ma ⸢ul⸣ [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)
- 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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