ABL 0226 (P334167)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0226 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334167 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To the king, my lord: your servant Nergal-eṭir. The best of health to the king, my lord! The land of the king is well. The king, my lord, can be glad indeed. |
| Obverse [7:14] o 88– | The bodyguard came to me on the 6th of Iyyar (II). The horses set out on the 7th of Iyyar. |
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}{d}U.GUR—KAR-ir | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | a-na KUR ša LUGAL DI-mu | |
| 6 | ŠA₃-bu ša LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 7 | a—dan-niš lu DUG₃.GA | |
| 8 | ina UD 06-KAM ša {iti}GUD | |
| 9 | {⸢lu₂vy⸣}qur-bu\p-tu₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢ina⸣ UGU-hi-ia | |
| 2 | it-tal-ka | |
| 3 | ina UD 07-KAM ša {iti}GUD | |
| 4 | {anšed}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 5 | u₂\dm-ta-miš-u₂\dm-ni | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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