ABL 0324 (P237822)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0324 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237822 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the queen mother, my lady: your servant Aplaya. May Bel and Nabû bless the queen mother, my lady! |
| Obverse [4:13] o 55– | Now then I am daily praying to Nabû and Nanaya for the maintenance of the life and the extension of the days of the king of the lands, my lord, and of the queen mother, my lady. |
| Reverse [2:8] r 33–r 88 | The queen mother, my lady, can be of peaceful mind. A gracious angel (lit. messenger) of Bel and Nabû has gone with the king of the lands, my lord. |
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 GAŠAN-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}DUMU.UŠ-a | |
| 3 | {d}EN u {d}AG a-na AMA—LUGAL AMA—LUGAL | |
| 4 | GAŠAN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 5 | a-du-u₂ UD-mu-us-su | |
| 6 | {d}AG u {d}na-na-a | |
| 7 | a-na ba-la-ṭa | |
| 8 | nap-ša₂-a-ti | |
| 9 | u₃ a-ra-ka UD-mu | |
| 10 | ša₂ LUGAL KUR.KUR EN-ia₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | u₃ AMA—LUGAL AMA—LUGAL GAŠAN-ia₂ | |
| 2 | u₂-ṣal-la | |
| 3 | AMA—LUGAL AMA—LUGAL GAŠAN-a | |
| 4 | lu-u₂ ha-ma-ti | |
| 5 | {lu₂}A—šip-ri {lu₂}A—šip-ri ša₂ du-un-qu | |
| 6 | ša₂ {d}EN u {d}AG | |
| 7 | it-ti LUGAL KUR.KUR | |
| 8 | be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 9 | it-ta-lak | |
Sources & licences
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