ABL 0079 (P334028)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0079 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334028 |
| 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, our lord: your servants Balasî and Nabû-ahhe-eriba. Good health to the king, our lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, our lord! |
| Obverse [5:8] o 66–o 88 | Concerning the planets [Satur]n and [Mars] ... |
| Reverse [0:7] r 1'1'–r 7'7' | There is (still) (a distance of) about 5 fi[ngers] left; it (= the conjunction) is not y[et] certain. Presently we keep observing and shall write to the king, our lord. It (= Mars) moves about a finger a day. |
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-ni | |
| 2 | ARAD-MEŠ-ka {1}ba-la-si-i | |
| 3 | {1}{d}PA—PAB-MEŠ—SU lu-u DI-mu | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL EN-ni | |
| 5 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 6 | EN-ni lik-ru-bu ina UGU | |
| 7 | {mul}[UDU.IDIM.SAG].⸢UŠ⸣ | |
| 8 | {⸢mul⸣}[ṣal-bat-a-nu] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | am—⸢mar 05 u₂⸣-[ba-ni] | |
| 2' | re-e-he u₂-[di-na] | |
| 3' | la pa-ri-[is] | |
| 4' | an-nu-rig ni-na-ṣar | |
| 5' | a-na LUGAL EN-ni | |
| 6' | ni-šap-pa-ra | |
| 7' | am—mar u₂-ba-ni | |
| 8' | ša UD-me il-lak | |
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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