ABL 0407 (P334278)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0407 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334278 |
| 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, my lord: your servant Nabû-ahhe-eriba. Good health to the king, my lord! (Since) this is a gloomy day, I did not send the (introductory) blessing. |
| Obverse [7:11] o 88–o 1111 | The eclipse swept from the east(ern quadrant) and settled over the entire west(ern quadrant of the moon). |
| Obverse [11:25] o 1212– | The planets Jupiter and Venus were present during the eclipse, until it cleared. With the king, my lord, (all) is well; it is evil for the Westland. Tomorrow I shall send the king, my lord, a (full) report on (this) eclipse of the moon. |
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}PA—PAB-MEŠ—SU | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | EN-ia | |
| 5 | UD-mu ša₂ ta-di-ir-ti | |
| 6 | šu-u₂ ka-ra-a-bu | |
| 7 | la aš₂-pu-ra | |
| 8 | AN.MI TA@v {im}KUR.RA | |
| 9 | is-sa-ah-aṭ | |
| 10 | ina UGU {im}MAR.TU | |
| 11 | gab-bu ik-ta-ra-ar | |
| 12 | {mul}SAG.ME.GAR | |
| 13 | {mul}dil-bat | |
| 14 | ina AN.MI iz-za-zu | |
| 15 | a-du u₂-zak-ku-u-ni | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 17 | DI-mu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | lum-nu | |
| 2 | ša₂ {kur}MAR.TU{ki} | |
| 3 | ina ši-a-ri | |
| 4 | u₂-il-tu₂ | |
| 5 | ša₂ AN.MI 30 | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 7 | u₂-še-ba-la | |
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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