ABL 0162 (P334108)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0162 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334108 |
| 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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To] the king, my lord: yo[ur servant] Issar-dur[i. Good he]alth to the king, [my lo]rd! |
| Obverse [3:11] o 44–o 1111 | We [watc]hed for the gods on the [2]9th [day]. There were clouds in [the sk]y, and therefore [w]e did [not] see (anything). How[ever], my messenger who has been staying [in the presence] of Marduk-šarru-[uṣur has] now [...] |
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}15—du-⸢ri⸣ | |
| 3 | [lu-u] ⸢DI⸣-mu a-na LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia₂] | |
| 4 | [UD] 29-KAM DINGIR-MEŠ [o] | |
| 5 | [ni-ta]-ṣar IM.⸢DIRI⸣ | |
| 6 | [ina AN]-e TA@v\m pa-ni [o] | |
| 7 | [la] ⸢ne₂⸣-mu-ru ⸢u₃⸣ | |
| 8 | {[lu₂v]}A—KIN-e-a {[lu₂v]}A—KIN-e-a ša [ina IGI] | |
| 9 | {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—LUGAL—[PAB] | |
| 10 | i-za-zu-u-[ni] | |
| 11 | ⸢an-nu-rig⸣ [x]+⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
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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