ABL 0401 (P237242)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0401 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237242 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | Order of the ki[ng] to Zeruti and to the clergy of Der. I am well, you may be content. |
| Obverse [7:14] o 88– | Be informed that there will be an intercalary Adar (XIII). Perform the festival and rites of my gods in a propitious month. |
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}NUMUN-u₂-[ti] | |
| 3 | u₃ a-na {lu₂}TU-MEŠ—E₂ {lu₂}TU-MEŠ—E₂ | |
| 4 | ša₂ BAD₃.DINGIR{ki} | |
| 5 | DI-mu ia-a-ši | |
| 6 | ŠA₃-ba-ku-nu | |
| 7 | lu ṭa-ab-ku-nu-šu₂ | |
| 8 | {iti}ŠE di-ri | |
| 9 | lu me-dak-kun-u₂-šu₂ | |
| 10 | EZEN UD GARZA-MEŠ | |
| 11 | ša DINGIR-MEŠ-e-a | |
| 12 | ina ITI šal-me | |
| 13 | ep-ša₂-aʾ | |
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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