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ABL 0142 (P334088)

Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationABL 0142
IDP334088
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreLetter
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû'a. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord!
Obverse [6:12] o 77–On the 7th of Kislev (IX) a fox entered the Inner City, and fell into a well in the garden of the god Aššur. It was hauled up and killed.

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
o
1a-na LUGAL EN-ia
2ARAD-ka {1}na-bu-u-a
3{d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU
4a-na LUGAL EN-ia
5lik-ru-bu
6UD 07-KAM ša {iti}KAN
7KA₅.A ina ŠA₃—URU
8e-tar-ba
9ina {giš}SAR ša {d}aš-šur
r
1ina PU₂ i-tu-qut
2u₂-se-lu-ni
3i-du-ku

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