K 11875 (P399496)
Administrative Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 11875 |
|---|---|
| ID | P399496 |
| 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' | [... in] darkness [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [... t]his not [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [... a]bandoned and [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [...] litigation [...] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [...] If I [...] |
| Obverse [6:8] o 7'7'–o 8'8' | despicable deeds [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | just as [......]. |
| Reverse [1:4] r 2'2'–r 4'4' | Now make good ...[...] in your (pl.) country, and let me see an answer to my letter! |
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' | [x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x] e-kel-ti [x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x a]-⸢ga⸣-a la ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x u₂]-maš-šir-u-ma ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 5' | [x] ⸢x⸣ DUG₄.DUG₄ an-[x x x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x]-⸢ti⸣ ki-i ana-ku ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 7' | ⸢ep⸣-še-et bi-iʾ-ša₂-[ti x x x x] | |
| 8' | [ki]-i ⸢ŠA₃ x x⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ki-i ša₂ ⸢ni⸣-[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | en-na le-ʾu-[ut x x] | |
| 3' | ina KUR-ku-nu bu-un-⸢na⸣-[a-ma] | |
| 4' | gab-ri ši-pir-ti-ia ⸢lu⸣-[mur] | |
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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