ABL 0495 (P334342)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0495 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334342 |
| 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 [0:15] o 1o 1– | To the king, my lord: your servant, Urdu-Nabû. Good health [to the king], my lord. May Aššur, Sin, Ša[maš, Bel], Zarp[anitu, Nabû], Ta[šmetu, Ištar of] Ni[neveh, and Ištar of Arbela — these great gods who love your kingship — allow the king, my lord, to live 100 years. May they grant the king, my lord, the satisfaction of old age, extreme old age]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | t[o .....] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | not [......] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | The 1st day we dr[opped it]. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | It is not our work — |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | (it is) nothing. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | The king, my lord, can be glad. |
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-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}ARAD—{d}PA | |
| 3 | lu-u šul-mu [a-na LUGAL] EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}30 {d}UTU {[d}EN] | |
| 5 | {d}zar-pa-[ni-tum {d}AG] | |
| 6 | {d}taš-[me-tum {d}15 ša] | |
| 7 | {uru}[NINA {d}15 ša {uru}arba-il₃] | |
| 8 | [DINGIR-MEŠ an-nu-te GAL-MEŠ] | |
| 9 | [ra-i-mu-te ša LUGAL-ti-ka] | |
| 10 | 01 me MU.AN.NA-MEŠ a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 11 | [lu-bal-li-ṭu] | |
| 12 | [ši-bu-tu lit-tu-tu] | |
| 13 | [a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 14 | [lu-šab-bi-u₂] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 3' | la [x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | UD 01-KAM₂ nu-⸢ur⸣-[ta-me-šu] | |
| 5' | la dul-li-in-ni [šu]-⸢u₂⸣ | |
| 6' | la me-me-ni | |
| 7' | ŠA₃-bu ša LUGAL | |
| 8' | EN-ia₂ lu DUG₃.GA šu₂-u | |
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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