ABL 0907 (P237996)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0907 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237996 |
| 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/saa17 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | Tablet of Ana-Nabû-taklak to the vizier, his lord. Good health to my lord! |
| Obverse [3:11] o 44–o 1111 | I have now sent Nabû-le'i, my son and emissary, to greet my lord. In his hands, I have sent a neck seal for my lord. |
| Obverse [11:17] o 1212– | May my lord write me (about) his [n]ews, [his hea]l[th and his h]appi[ness]. |
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 | ⸢ṭup⸣-[pi {1}a-na—{d}AG—tak-lak | |
| 2 | a-na {lu₂}⸢SUKKAL⸣ be-li₂-šu₂ | |
| 3 | lu-u₂ šul-mu a-na be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | a-du-u₂ {1}{d}AG—A₂.GAL₂ DUMU-u₂-a | |
| 5 | u₃ na-aš₂-pa-ru-u₂-a | |
| 6 | a-na šul-mu be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 7 | al-tap-ra | |
| 8 | 01-en {na₄}ki-ša₂-du | |
| 9 | i-na ŠU.2-šu₂ | |
| 10 | a-na be-li₂-ia | |
| 11 | ⸢ul⸣-te-bi-⸢la⸣ | |
| 12 | ⸢ṭe₃⸣-e-⸢mu⸣ [ša₂] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 13 | ⸢be⸣-li₂-⸢ia⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [šu]-⸢lum⸣-[šu₂ u ṭu]-⸢ub⸣ ŠA₃-⸢bi⸣-[šu₂] | |
| 2 | be-li₂ liš-pu-⸢ra⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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