ABL 0612 (P334424)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0612 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334424 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | [To the king, my lord: your servant Urad-Ea. Good health to the king, my lord]! May [Nabû], Marduk, [Sin and] Nik[kal] bless [the king], my lord! |
| Obverse [8:20] o 99– | On the 25th day, at night, the kettledrum will be placed before [Ne]rg[al] upon the garments of the king. At the same time we shall perform the (chants) of Saturn. The god will [bless] the king, my lord, on account of the [pr]aise. |
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}ARAD—E₂.A] | |
| 3 | [lu-u DI-mu] | |
| 4 | [a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 5 | {[d}AG u] {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | {[d}30 u] {d}NIN.[GAL] | |
| 7 | [a-na LUGAL] be-li₂-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 8 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 9 | UD 25-KAM₂\t ina nu-bat-[ti] | |
| 10 | LI.LI.IZ₃ ina IGI {d}[U].⸢GUR⸣ | |
| 11 | ina UGU ku-zip-pi | |
| 12 | ša LUGAL iš-šak-kan | |
| 13 | ša {d}UDU.IDIM.SAG.UŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | is-se-niš | |
| 2 | ne₂-pu-uš | |
| 3 | DINGIR ina UGU-hi | |
| 4 | [da]-⸢li⸣-li | |
| 5 | [a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ia | |
| 6 | [i-kar-rab] | |
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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