ABL 0055 (P334006)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0055 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334006 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-nadin-šumi. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk greatly bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:10] o 77– | Concerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "You ask (him)!" — |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44 | I don't know who this man is — whom should I ask? Let the man be pointed out to me (then), I will ask him. |
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}{d}PA—SUM—MU | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 6 | a—dan-niš lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | ina UGU ša LUGAL EN iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 8 | ma-a at-ta-ma | |
| 9 | ša-ʾa-al | |
| r | ||
| 1 | LU₂ la u₂-da | |
| 2 | a.a-u₂ šu-tu-u₂-ni | |
| 3 | a-na man-ni la-aš₂-al | |
| 4 | LU₂ lu-šah-⸢kim⸣-u-ni | |
| 5 | la-aš₂-al-šu | |
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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