ABL 0671 (P334469)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0671 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334469 |
| 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 [0:10] o 1o 1–o 1010 | To the king, [my lo]rd: your servant Issar-[nadin-apli], the foreman of the collegium of ten (scribes) of Arbela. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû, Marduk, and Ištar of Arbela bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [10:15] o 1111– | We kept watch on the 29th day; we did not see the moon. |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | Month of Tammuz (IV), 2nd day, eponym year of Belšunu, governor of Hindanu (648) |
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}{d}15—[SUM—A] | |
| 3 | {lu₂}GAL—10-ti {lu₂}GAL—10-ti | |
| 4 | ša {uru}arba-il₃ | |
| 5 | lu-u DI-mu | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 7 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 8 | {d}15 ša {uru}arba-il₃ | |
| 9 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 10 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 11 | ina UD 29-KAM₂ | |
| 12 | ma-ṣar-tu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ni-ta-ṣa-ar | |
| 2 | {d}30 la ne₂-mur | |
| 3 | {iti}ŠU UD 02-KAM₂\t | |
| 4 | lim-mu {1}EN-šu₂-nu | |
| 5 | {lu₂v}NAM {uru}hi-in-da-nu | |
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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