ABL 0508 (P334349)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0508 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334349 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, [my] lord: your servant Ašipâ. The bes[t] of health to the ki[ng], my [lo]rd! |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | The [forts] and the land of the king, my [lord], are [we]ll. |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77– | [x] governors [......] |
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\t EN-[ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}a-ši-pa-[a] | |
| 3 | ⸢lu⸣ DI-mu a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 4 | ⸢EN⸣-ia a—dan-⸢niš⸣ | |
| 5 | [DI]-⸢mu⸣ a-na {uru}[bi-rat] | |
| 6 | [a-na] KUR ša\m LUGAL [EN]-ia | |
| 7 | [x] {⸢lu₂⸣}NAM-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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