ABL 0440 (P334304)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0440 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334304 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-šumu-iddina. The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:18] o 77– | 25 teams have arrived from the tax-collection centers of Calah, Nineveh, and Dur-Šarruken. Should I array them tomorrow? What is it that the king, my lord, commands? |
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-ia a—dan-niš a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 6 | be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | 25 u₂-ra-a-te | |
| 8 | ša na-kan-te | |
| 9 | ša pi-ir-ra-ni | |
| 10 | ša {uru}kal-hi | |
| 11 | ša {uru}ni-nu-a | |
| 12 | ša {uru}BAD₃—MAN—GIN | |
| 13 | it-tal-ka-a-ni | |
| 14 | la-as-de-e-re | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina ši-a-ri | |
| 2 | mi-i-nu | |
| 3 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 4 | i-qab-bu-u-ni | |
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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