ABL 0399 (P236874)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0399 |
|---|---|
| ID | P236874 |
| 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/saa21 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | The king's word to Bel-ibni: I am well; you can be glad. |
| Obverse [2:12] o 33– | Concerning Mušezib-Marduk, the very day he entered into my presence, I sent him to his mission. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | He did not spend a night in Nineveh. |
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 | a-mat LUGAL | |
| 2 | a-na {1}{d}EN—DU₃ | |
| 3 | DI-mu a.a-ši | |
| 4 | ŠA₃-ba-ka | |
| 5 | lu-u₂ ṭa-ab-ka | |
| 6 | ina UGU {1}mu-še-zib—{d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 7 | ša taš-pu-ra | |
| 8 | ma-al UD-mi-šu₂ i-tir-ba | |
| 9 | i-na pa-ni-ia | |
| 10 | KASKAL.2 ina GIR₃.2-šu₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | al-ta-kan | |
| 2 | nu-bat-ti | |
| 3 | ina NINA{ki} ul i-bit | |
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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