ABL 0176 (P334121)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0176 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334121 |
| 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 [0:9] o 1o 1–o 99 | [To the ki]ng, our lord: your servants, Nabû-balassu-iqbi and Iddin-Ea. [Go]od health to the king, our lord. May Bel and Nabû bless the king, our lord. |
| Obverse [9:13] o 1010– | All is very well with the watch of the king, our lord. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | I have kil[led] a colle[ague of ours] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | who [...] the off[ice of] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | under ... [...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | Because of it he [...]. |
| Reverse [5:8] r 66–r 88 | As soon as they have questio[ned ...], let the king hear [everything] about it. Aššur-naṣir knows. The king should ask him. |
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-ni-ka | |
| 3 | {1}{d]}AG—TI-su—iq-bi | |
| 4 | {1}id-din—ia | |
| 5 | [lu]-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 6 | EN-i-ni | |
| 7 | {d}EN u₃ {d}AG | |
| 8 | a-na LUGAL EN-ni | |
| 9 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 10 | DI-mu a-na ma-ṣar-ti | |
| 11 | ša LUGAL EN-[i-ni] | |
| 12 | ad—dan-niš | |
| r | ||
| 1 | me-eh-[ri-ni] | |
| 2 | šu-u ad-⸢du⸣-[ka] | |
| 3 | ša pi-qit-[te ša] | |
| 4 | ša₂-pal zi-zi [x x] | |
| 5 | TA@v pa-ni i-[x x] | |
| 6 | ki-ma i-sa-⸢al⸣-[lu] | |
| 7 | TA@v pa-ni LUGAL [gab-bu] | |
| 8 | liš-me {1}aš-šur—PAB-ir | |
| 9 | u₂-da LUGAL liš-al-šu₂ | |
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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