ABL 0178 (P334123)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0178 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334123 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-naṣir. May Nabû and Marduk very greatly bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:14] o 77– | The charge of the 'Lady of Cults' is doing very well; the king, my lord, can be glad indeed. |
| Reverse [0:8] r 1r 1–r 88 | May the king, my lord, lift the grandchildren of the charge of the 'Lady of Cults' upon his knees and see gray hairs in their beards! |
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}AG—PAB-ir | |
| 3 | {d}AG u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 5 | a—dan-niš | |
| 6 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | DI-mu a—dan-niš a—dan-niš | |
| 8 | a-na pi-qi-te | |
| 9 | ša {d}GAŠAN—par-ṣi | |
| 10 | ŠA₃-bi ša LUGAL | |
| 11 | be-li₂-ia | |
| 12 | a—dan-niš | |
| 13 | lu ṭa-ab-šu₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša pi-qit-te | |
| 2 | ša {d}GAŠAN—par-ṣi | |
| 3 | LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 4 | DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂ DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 5 | ina bur-ke-e-šu₂ | |
| 6 | li-in-tu-hu | |
| 7 | par-šu-ma-a-te | |
| 8 | ina zi-iq-ni-šu₂-nu | |
| 9 | le-mur | |
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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