ABL 0067 (P334018)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0067 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334018 |
| 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 [0:11] o 1o 1– | To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-šumu-iddina. The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! I am a dog, but the king, my lord, has remembered me. [May] Aššur, Bel, Nabû, Si[n, Šamaš], Ninurta, and Nergal [guard the life of the king, my lord]! |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | Are [the ... horses] from the magnates of Bet-kari coming in? What are the written instructions of the king, my lord? |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | Those of Ebir-nari have not yet come in. |
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}AG—MU—SUM-na | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | a—dan-niš a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 6 | be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu a-na-ku kal-bu | |
| 7 | LUGAL be-li₂ ih-ta-sa-an-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 8 | aš-šur {d}EN {d}AG {d}30 {[d}UTU] | |
| 9 | {[d]}MAŠ u₃ {d}U.GUR [nap-ša₂-a-te] | |
| 10 | [ša LUGAL be-li₂-ia li-iṣ-ṣu-ru] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ] | |
| 2 | ša {lu₂v}GAL-MEŠ ša E₂—ka-a-⸢ri⸣ | |
| 3 | il-la-ku-u₂-ne₂-e | |
| 4 | mi-i-nu ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 5 | i-šap-par-an-ni | |
| 6 | ša {kur}e-bir—ID₂ la il-lak-u-ni | |
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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