ABL 0796 (P237306)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0796 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237306 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | To the king, my lord: your servant Aša[redu] the younger. |
| Obverse [1:3] o 22–o 33 | The moon will not make an eclipse; the king of the lands, my lord, can be happy. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | May Bel and Nabû grant the years of Alu[lim to the king], my lord! |
| Obverse [4:7] o 55–o 77 | To whom [...] can I tell all the things [that the king, my lord], has given us? The king [......]. |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | Let them give me [.......] |
| Obverse [8:10] o 99– | to the king [......] |
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-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia ARAD-ka {1}a-ša₂-[ri-du] | |
| 2 | qa-at-nu 30 AN.MI ul i-[ša₂-kan] | |
| 3 | ŠA₃-bi ša₂ LUGAL KUR.KUR be-li₂-ia₂ lu-u₂ [ṭa-a-bi] | |
| 4 | {d}EN u {d}AG MU-MEŠ ša₂ {1}a-lu-[lim a-na LUGAL] | |
| 5 | EN-ia₂ li-qi₂-ši mim-ma ma-⸢la⸣ [LUGAL EN-a] | |
| 6 | id-di-na-na-ši a-na man-ni-[ma x x] | |
| 7 | lu-uq-bi LUGAL [x x x x x x x] | |
| 8 | lid-di-nu-nu u [x x x x x x x] | |
| 9 | a-na LUGAL [x x x x x x 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)
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