ABL 0352 (P334228)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0352 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334228 |
| 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 [0:10] o 1o 1–o 1010 | To the king, my lord: your servant Balasî. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! May Aššur, Bel and Nabû give happiness and joy to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [10:17] o 1111– | The moon has taken an auspicious aspect: it is the beginning of the month. |
| Reverse [1:12] r 22–r 1212 | [Con]cerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me — today is an 'evil day,' I shall write (about it) tomorrow. Thinking about these matters today is not good; I shall write tomorrow. |
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 | |
| 6 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | {d}aš-šur EN {d}PA | |
| 8 | ṭu-ub ŠA₃-bi | |
| 9 | hu-ud ŠA₃-bi | |
| 10 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 11 | lid-di-nu {d}30 | |
| 12 | a-na SIG₅ | |
| 13 | pa-ni-šu₂ is-sa-ka-an | |
| b.e. | ||
| 14 | ⸢SAG⸣.DU ITI | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢šu⸣-u₂ | |
| 2 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ ša LUGAL | |
| 3 | [be]-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 4 | [UD]-⸢mu⸣ an-ni-i-u | |
| 5 | ⸢la⸣-mi₃-i-ni | |
| 6 | ina ši-i-a-ri | |
| 7 | a-šap-pa-ra | |
| 8 | di-ib-bi an-nu-ti | |
| 9 | UD-mu an-ni-i-u₂ | |
| 10 | a-na ha-sa-si | |
| 11 | la ṭa-a-ba | |
| 12 | ina ši-i-a-ri | |
| 13 | a-šap-pa-ra | |
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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