ABL 1465 (P239258)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1465 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239258 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To the king of the lands, m[y] lord: your servant, Illil-bani. [May] Enlil, Ninurta, and [Nusku bless] the king of the lands, my lord! [May] the [g]ods of Ekur and Nipp[ur and] the great [g]ods of he[aven and earth grant the king of the lands, my lord, a life of] l[ong d]a[y]s. |
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 KUR.KUR be-li₂-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}EN.LIL₂—ba-ni | |
| 3 | {d}EN.LIL₂ {d}NIN.URTA u₃ {[d}PA.TUG₂] | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL KUR.KUR be-li₂-ia [lik-ru-bu] | |
| 5 | ⸢DINGIR⸣-MEŠ šu-ut E₂.KUR u EN.⸢LIL₂⸣{[ki]} | |
| 6 | [u] ⸢DINGIR-MEŠ⸣ GAL-MEŠ ša₂ ⸢AN⸣-[e u] | |
| 7 | [KI.TIM ba-laṭ] ⸢UD-MEŠ GID₂⸣.[DA-MEŠ] | |
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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