ABL 0028 (P333980)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | ABL 0028 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333980 |
| 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/saa10 · 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, my lord: your servant Urad-Ea. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû, Marduk, Sin, Nikkal and Nusku bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | The Moon god (and his consort) Nik[kal ......] |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1'1'–r 5'5' | [......] have b[lessed the king, my lord], and given a life of distant days to the king, my lord! |
| Reverse [5:8] r 6'6'–r 8'8' | I pray day and night for the life of the king, my lord. |
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 EN-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}ARAD—{d}E₂.A | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU {d}30 | |
| 6 | {d}NIN.GAL {d}PA.TUG₂ | |
| 7 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 8 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 9 | {d}30 {d}NIN.[GAL] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢ik⸣-[tar-bu ba-laṭ] | |
| 2' | na-piš-⸢ti⸣ [ša UD-me] | |
| 3' | ru-qu-u₂-ti | |
| 4' | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5' | it-tan-nu | |
| 6' | ana-ku UD-me mu-šu₂ | |
| 7' | ina UGU-hi ZI-MEŠ | |
| 8' | ša EN-ia | |
| 9' | u₂-ṣal-la | |
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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-11.