ABL 0428 (P334294)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0428 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334294 |
| 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/saa13 · 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-šumu-idd[ina]. The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [7:14] o 88– | As to the message which the king, my lord, sent me, asking: "Has the commander-in-chief's deputy come in?" — he has not yet come in. |
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-[ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}PA—MU—⸢AŠ⸣ | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | be-li₂-ia₂ a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | a—dan-niš {d}AG | |
| 6 | {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 7 | be-li₂-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 8 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 9 | iš-pur-an-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ma-a {lu₂v}02-u | |
| 2 | ša {lu₂v}tur-ta-ni | |
| 3 | e-tar-ba-a | |
| 4 | u₂-di-i-ni | |
| 5 | la e-ra-ba | |
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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