ABL 0857 (P238431)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0857 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238431 |
| 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 [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | [To the] king, m[y] l[ord]: [yo]ur [servant] Aqar-Bel-lumur. [Good] health to the king, my lord! [Say] to the king, my lord: The fortress [and the troop]s of the king [are well. The mood of the pe]ople of the land is good. [The king, my lord, can b]e glad. |
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] LUGAL ⸢be-li₂-ia⸣ | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ {1}a-qar—{d}EN—lu-mur | |
| 3 | [lu-u₂] ⸢šu⸣-lum a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | [um-ma-a] ⸢a⸣-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia-a-ma | |
| 5 | [šu-lum a]-⸢na⸣ {uru}HAL.ṢU-MEŠ | |
| 6 | [u₃ e-mu]-⸢qi₂⸣ ša LUGAL | |
| 7 | [ṭe₃-e-mu ša₂ UN]-MEŠ KUR šu-lum | |
| 8 | [ŠA₃-bi ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia] ⸢lu⸣-u₂ DUG₃.GA | |
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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