ABL 1062 (P240349)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1062 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240349 |
| 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 ki]ng of the lands, [my] lo[rd: yo]ur [servant], Ahhe[šaya]. May [Uruk] and Eann[a] bl[es]s [the king] of the lands, my lord! I pray [ev]ery [day] to the Lady of Uruk [and Na]naya for the life [of the king], my [lo]rd. |
| Obverse [7:9] o 88–o 99 | [The gods of] the king, my lord, have opened his [ear]s: |
| Obverse [9:12] o 1010–o 1212 | [...] scribal [art] |
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 ⸢EN⸣-[ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ {1}ŠEŠ-MEŠ-[ša₂-a] | |
| 3 | [UNUG{ki]} u E₂.AN.⸢NA⸣ | |
| 4 | [a-na LUGAL] KUR.KUR EN-ia lik-[ru]-⸢bu⸣ | |
| 5 | [UD-mu]-⸢us⸣-su {d}GAŠAN ša₂ UNUG{⸢ki⸣} | |
| 6 | [u₃ {d}na]-na-a a-na TIN ZI-MEŠ | |
| 7 | [ša₂ LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣-ia u₂-ṣal-li | |
| 8 | [DINGIR-MEŠ ša₂] LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 9 | [PI.2-MEŠ-šu₂ ip-te-⸢tu₂-u₂⸣ | |
| 10 | [x x]-na DUB.⸢SAR⸣-[u₂-tu] | |
| 11 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 12 | [x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
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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