ABL 0116 (P334064)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0116 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334064 |
| 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, Urdu-Nabû. Good health to the king, my lord. May Nabû, Marduk, and Sin, the great [god]s, bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | [...] all |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | [...] of/which anyone/anything |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | [...] ... the king |
| Obverse [10:12] o 1111–o 1212 | I shall speak [...] of our statement [...], |
| Obverse [12:15] o 1313– | [......] before ..., |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | and read it [befor]e the king, my lord. May the king, my lord, give heed. |
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}ARAD—{d}PA | |
| 3 | [lu]-u šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {[d]}AG {d}AMAR.UTU {d}30 | |
| 5 | [DINGIR]-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 6 | [lik]-⸢ru⸣-bu | |
| 7 | [x x] gab-bi | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x] | |
| 9 | [x x] ša₂ me-me-ni | |
| 10 | [x x]+⸢x⸣-mu LUGAL | |
| 11 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ ša₂ da-ba-bi-ni | |
| 12 | ⸢ad⸣-da-bu-ub | |
| 13 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ ina IGI ša₂ ti-⸢ib⸣-[x] | |
| 14 | [x x] ak ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ina] ⸢IGI⸣ LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 2 | [a]-⸢sa⸣-as-si | |
| 3 | LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 4 | li-iš-me | |
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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