ABL 0351 (P334227)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0351 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334227 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, my lord: your servant Balasî. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:8] o 66–o 88 | Concerning the watch of the moon about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, (the eclipse) will pass by, it will not occur. |
| Obverse [8:20] o 99– | Concerning the watch of the sun about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, does the king, my lord, not know that it is being closely observed? The day of tomor[row] is the only (day left); once the watch is over, (this eclipse), too, will have passed by, it will not occur. |
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}ba-la-si-i | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | EN-ia {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ina UGU ma-ṣar-ti ša₂ {d}30 | |
| 7 | ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 8 | u₂-še-taq la i-šak-kan | |
| 9 | ina UGU ma-ṣar-ti ša₂ {d}UTU | |
| 10 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 11 | iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 12 | LUGAL be-li₂ la u₂-⸢da⸣ | |
| 13 | ki-i da-aʾ-nu-tu₂-[ni] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 14 | UD-mu ša ši-i-[a-ri] | |
| 15 | ⸢šu⸣-u₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | u₂-de-e-šu₂ | |
| 2 | ma-ṣar-tu₂ ga-[am-rat] | |
| 3 | u₂-še-taq-ma | |
| 4 | la i-šak-kan | |
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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