ABL 0066 (P334017)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0066 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334017 |
| 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/saa13 · 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-šumu-iddina. Very good health indeed to the king, my lord. May Nabû and Marduk very greatly bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [6:9] o 77–o 99 | The queen of Esaggil (= Zarpanitu), of whom the king today [......] |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | They will keep watch over [Assurbanipal], great [crown prince] of the Succession Palace, and over [the crown prince] of Babylon. |
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 be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}PA—MU—AŠ | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | be-li₂-ia a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | a—dan-niš {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | {d}šar-rat—E₂.SAG.⸢IL₂⸣ | |
| 8 | ⸢ša UD⸣ [an]-ni-u₂ ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x] | |
| 9 | [x x x x] i [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ša {1}{d}[aš-šur—DU₃—A DUMU—MAN] DUMU—MAN] | |
| 2' | GAL-u₂ ša E₂—UŠ-te E₂—UŠ-te | |
| 3' | [DUMU—MAN] [DUMU—MAN] KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} | |
| 4' | ⸢ma⸣-ṣar-ta-šu₂-nu i-na-ṣar-ru | |
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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