ABL 0674 (P334472)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0674 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334472 |
| 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 [0:9] o 1o 1–o 99 | [To] our [lord: your servants] Issar-šumu-ereš, [Urad]-Ea, and [Marduk]-šakin-šumi. The best [of he]alth [to] our lord! [May Nabû and] Marduk bless our lord! |
| Obverse [9:17] o 1010– | [In accordance with what] our lord [wr]ote to us: "[on the 29]th day, a solar [eclipse took place," — we shall p]erform the pertinent [apotropaic ritual; somebody should s]it (on the throne) [and remo]ve [your evil]. |
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 EN]-i-ni | |
| 2 | [ARAD-MEŠ-ka {1}15—MU—KAM-eš | |
| 3 | {1}ARAD—{d]}E₂.A | |
| 4 | {1}{d}AMAR.UTU]—GAR—MU | |
| 5 | [lu DI]-mu a—dan-niš | |
| 6 | [a-na] EN-i-ni | |
| 7 | {[d}PA u] {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 8 | [a-na] EN-i-ni | |
| 9 | [lik]-ru-bu | |
| 10 | [ki-i ša] EN-i-ni | |
| 11 | [iš]-⸢pur⸣-an-na-ši-ni | |
| 12 | [ma-a UD 29-KAM₂\t | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [AN.MI] {d}UTU | |
| 2 | [GAR NAM.BUR₂.BI]-šu₂ | |
| 3 | [ne₂-ep]-pa-aš₂ | |
| 4 | [me-me-ni lu]-⸢ši⸣-ib | |
| 5 | [HUL-ka liš]-⸢ši⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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