ABL 0554 (P334379)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0554 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334379 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the k[ing, my lord]: yo[ur] servant [PN]. Good [health to the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:17] o 44– | As to the [orders which the king, my lord], gave me, (hereby) I am sending greetings to the king, my lord. May I hear about the health of the king, my lord, and may the king write me what the matter is, and encourage his servant. |
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}x x x] | |
| 3 | lu-u [DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | ina UGU [ṭe₃-e-me ša LUGAL EN] | |
| 5 | iš-kun-[an-ni]-ni | |
| 6 | DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 7 | as-sap-ra | |
| 8 | DI-mu ša LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 9 | la-aš₂-me | |
| 10 | u₃ mi-i-nu | |
| 11 | ša šu-tu-u₂-ni | |
| b.e. | ||
| 12 | LUGAL liš-pu-ra | |
| 13 | lib-bu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-na {lu₂}ARAD-šu | |
| 2 | liš-kun | |
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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