ABL 0655 (P334455)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0655 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334455 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To [the king], our lord: your servants Adad-šumu-uṣur, Marduk-šakin-šumi and Nabû-nadin-šumi. Good health to the king, our lord! May Nabû and Marduk greatly bl[ess] the king, our lord! |
| Reverse [2:4] r 3'3'–r 4'4' | Thereafter we shall perf[orm] it. |
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-i-ni | |
| 2 | ARAD-MEŠ-ni-ka {1}{d}IM—MU—PAB | |
| 3 | {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—GAR—MU {1}{d}PA—SUM—MU | |
| 4 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | EN-i-ni {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL EN-i-[ni] | |
| 7 | a—dan-niš lik-⸢ru⸣-[bu] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x]+⸢x⸣-šu₂-⸢ni x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 3' | [x] i—da-[a-ti] i—da-[a-ti] | |
| 4' | ne₂-e-pa-[aš₂] | |
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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