ABL 0346 (P334224)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0346 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334224 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To the king, our lord: your servants, the scribes of Kilizi. Good health to the king, our lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king! |
| Obverse [7:15] o 88– | We watched the moon; on the 14th day the moon and the sun saw each other. (This means) well-being. |
| Reverse [0:7] r 1r 1–r 77 | May Nabû and Marduk bless the king. Because of the ilku-duty and the corvée work we cannot keep the watch of the king, and the pupils do not learn the scribal craft. |
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-ni | |
| 2 | ARAD-MEŠ-ka {lu₂}A.BA-MEŠ | |
| 3 | ša {uru}kal₃-zi | |
| 4 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | be-li₂-ni | |
| 6 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 7 | a-na LUGAL lik-ru-bu | |
| 8 | ma-ṣar-tu ša {d}30 | |
| 9 | ni-ta-ṣar | |
| 10 | UD 14-KAM {d}30 u {d}UTU | |
| b.e. | ||
| 11 | a-he-iš | |
| 12 | e-ta-am-ru | |
| 13 | DI-mu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 2 | a-na LUGAL lik-ru-bu | |
| 3 | TA@v pa-an il-ki | |
| 4 | tup-šik-ki ma-ṣar-tu | |
| 5 | ša LUGAL la ni-na-ṣar | |
| 6 | {lu₂v}di-da-be₂-e | |
| 7 | ⸢ṭup⸣-[šar]-⸢ru⸣-tu | |
| 8 | la [i]-⸢lam⸣-mu-du | |
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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