ABL 0254 (P237817)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0254 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237817 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the mother of the king, my lord: your servant, Ašaredu. May Nabû and M[a]rduk bless the mother of the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [6:13] o 77– | I pray every day to Nergal and Laṣ for the life of the king and of the mother of the king, my lords. |
| Reverse [1:7] r 22–r 77 | All is well with the city and the temple(s) of the king, and now I am keeping the watch of the king, my [l]ord. |
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 AMA—LUGAL AMA—LUGAL | |
| 2 | be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 3 | ARAD-ka {1}a-ša₂-re-du | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {d}⸢AMAR⸣.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na AMA—LUGAL AMA—LUGAL | |
| 6 | be-li₂-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | UD-mu-us-su | |
| 8 | {d}U.GUR u {d}la-aṣ | |
| 9 | a-na TIN ZI-MEŠ | |
| 10 | ša₂ LUGAL u AMA—LUGAL AMA—LUGAL | |
| 11 | be-li₂-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | u₂-ṣal-lu | |
| 2 | DI-mu a-na URU | |
| 3 | u E₂—DINGIR-MEŠ E₂—DINGIR-MEŠ | |
| 4 | ša₂ LUGAL u a-du-u | |
| 5 | ma-⸢aṣ⸣-ṣar-tu₂ | |
| 6 | ša₂ LUGAL ⸢be⸣-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 7 | a-na-aṣ-ṣar | |
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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