ABL 0040 (P333992)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0040 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333992 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, [my] lord: your servant Issar-šumu-ereš. Good health to the king, [my lo]rd! May Nabû and Ma[rduk bless the] king, [my lo]rd! |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [As to what the ki]ng, [my lo]rd, [wrote to me]: |
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-[ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}15—MU—KAM-eš | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia] | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {d}⸢AMAR⸣.[UTU] | |
| 5 | [a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia lik-ru-bu] | |
| 6 | [ša] ⸢LUGAL be⸣-[li iš-pur-an-ni] | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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