ABL 0219 (P238012)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0219 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238012 |
| 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 [0:9] 11–99 | A tablet of Bel-upaq to Kunâ, his father. Good health to my father! I pray every day to Nabû and Nanaya for the life of my father, and I steadily do (my) duty for Ezida on behalf of my father. |
| Obverse [9:17] 1010– | When I enquired of Mar-Biti about yo[u], he fixed the date of (your) well-being until the fourth day. |
| Reverse [2:6] r 33–r 66 | Remember to take good care of your[s]elf in absolutely everything you do! |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ⸢IM⸣ {1}{d}EN—⸢u₂⸣-paq | |
| 2 | a-na {1}ku-na-a AD-šu₂ | |
| 3 | lu-u₂ šu-lum ana AD-ia₂ | |
| 4 | UD-mu-us-su {d}AG u {d}na-na-a | |
| 5 | a-na TIN ZI-MEŠ ša₂ AD-ia₂ | |
| 6 | u₂-ṣal-li u₃ il-ku | |
| 7 | a-na E₂.ZI.DA | |
| 8 | a-na UGU AD-ia | |
| 9 | kun-na-ak | |
| 10 | {d}DUMU—E₂ a-na | |
| 11 | UGU-hi-⸢ka⸣ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 12 | ki-i | |
| 13 | aš₂-ʾa-a-lu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-dan-nu ša₂ šu-lum | |
| 2 | ⸢a⸣-di UD 04-KAM₂ iṣ-ṣab-ta | |
| 3 | a-na mim-ma ka-la-mu | |
| 4 | ma-la tep-pu-šu₂ | |
| 5 | šu-lum ⸢ra⸣-man-ka | |
| 6 | hu-us-su | |
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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