ABL 0806 (P237681)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0806 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237681 |
| 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/saa18 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [A tablet] of Marduk to the chief tailor, his lord. Good health to my lord! May Bel and Nabû be concerned with the health of my lord. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | Just as your name [...] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [...] the king of the lands |
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 | [IM] {1}mar-duk a-na⸣ | |
| 2 | {⸢lu₂⸣}GAL—ka-ṣir {⸢lu₂⸣}GAL—ka-ṣir be-li₂-šu₂ | |
| 3 | ⸢lu⸣-u DI-⸢mu⸣ a-na be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {d}EN u {d}AG ⸢šul⸣-lum ša₂ be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 5 | liš-ʾa-a-lu ⸢a⸣-ki-i ša₂ MU-ka | |
| 6 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x] ⸢LUGAL KUR.KUR⸣ | |
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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