ABL 0676 (P334474)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0676 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334474 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To my lord: your servant Issar-šumu-ereš. Good health to my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless my lord! |
| Obverse [5:10] o 66–o 1010 | Concerning the substitute king [about whom] my lord wrote to me, [M]a[rs is em]erging [fr]om the Breast [of Scorpius ......] |
| Reverse [0:10] r 11–r 1010 | [Concerning the s]igns [about which my lord w]rote to me, [after] we had enthroned him, we had him hear them in front of Šamaš. Furthermore, yesterday I had him hear them again, and I bent down and bound them in his hem. Now I shall again do as my lord wrote to me. |
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-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}15—MU—KAM | |
| 3 | lu šul-mu a-na EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na EN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ina UGU LUGAL pu-u-hi | |
| 7 | [ša] be-li iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 8 | {[mul}ṣal]-⸢bat⸣-[a]-⸢nu TA@v⸣ ŠA₃ ir-ti | |
| 9 | [ša {mul}GIR₂.TAB u₂]-ṣa-a | |
| 10 | [x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x] ⸢GISKIM⸣-MEŠ | |
| 2 | [ša be-li iš]-pur-an-ni | |
| 3 | [ina E₂] ⸢nu₂-še⸣-ši-bu-šu₂-ni | |
| 4 | [ina] ma-har {d}⸢UTU nu⸣-sa-aš₂-me-šu₂ | |
| 5 | u₃ it—ti-ma-li it—ti-ma-li | |
| 6 | us-sa-aš₂-me-šu₂-ma | |
| 7 | aq-ṭa-da-ad | |
| 8 | ina qa-an-ni-šu₂ ar-ta-kas | |
| 9 | u₂-ma-a tu-ra ki-i | |
| 10 | ša be-li iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 11 | ep-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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