ABL 0669 (P334467)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | ABL 0669 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334467 |
| 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, [my lo]rd: your servant Urad-[Ea]. Good health t[o the king, my lord]! May Nabû, Marduk, Sin and Nikkal bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [7:12] o 88–o 1212 | Tonight the bronze kettledrum will be plac[ed bef]ore Venus. The 'head-washers' are saying: |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313 | "[...] for Sin |
| Obverse [13:16] o 1414– | [... eveni]ng |
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-ia₂] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}ARAD—{[d}E₂.A] | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-[na LUGAL EN-ia₂] | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | {d}30 u {d}NIN.GAL | |
| 6 | [a]-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 7 | ⸢lik⸣-ru-bu | |
| 8 | [mu]-šu an-ni-ʾu-[u₂] | |
| 9 | ⸢LI⸣.LI.IZ₃ UD.KA.⸢BAR⸣ | |
| 10 | [ina] ⸢IGI⸣ {d}dil-bat iš-ša₂-[kan] | |
| 11 | ⸢ša⸣ ma-se-e kaq-qa-da-[te] | |
| 12 | [i]-qab-bi-ʾu-u | |
| 13 | [ma-a x x]+⸢x⸣ a-na {d}30 | |
| 14 | [x x nu]-⸢bat⸣-tu | |
| 15 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x] | |
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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-11.