1889-04-26 Bu, 0057 unpublished unassigned ? (P452858)
Administrative Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | 1889-04-26 Bu, 0057 unpublished unassigned ? |
|---|---|
| ID | P452858 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [... the w]atch o[f ...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...] the king, my lord, [...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [...] into [...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [...] sid[ed] with them |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [...] my legal adversary |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [...] Now why did |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [...] si[de with] Indabibi? |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | [...] thos[e wo]rds of mine [...] |
| Reverse [9:11] r 10'10'–r 11'11' | [...] from h[ere] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x] ⸢x⸣ u₂-[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x] ⸢ma⸣-ṣar-tu ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x] ⸢x⸣ LUGAL be-li₂ [x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x] ⸢x⸣ a-na ŠA₃-bi [x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x] ⸢is⸣-si-šu₂-nu it-ti-⸢ti⸣-[iz] | |
| 6' | [x x x] ⸢x⸣ EN—da-ba-bi-ia EN—da-ba-bi-ia 0 | |
| 7' | [x x x]-qu u₂-ma-a a-ta-[a] | |
| 8' | [x x TA@v\dm] {1}in-da-bi-bi iz-⸢zi⸣-[iz] | |
| 9' | [x x dib]-bi-ia am-mu-[te x x] | |
| 10' | [x x x]-ru TA@v\dm an-[na-ka] | |
| 11' | [x x x] ⸢x⸣-ti ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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