ABL 0689 (P334487)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0689 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334487 |
| 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 Ba[lasî] and Nabû-ahhe-[eriba]. Good health [to the king], our lord! May Nabû and Marduk bl[ess the king], our lord! |
| Obverse [7:12] o 88–o 1212 | Concerning what the king, [our lord], wrote to [us], about the [eye-stones] and the ša[nduppu]-gem in [...] |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | [If] the aškiqû-stone pleas[es the king], our lord, [they should use it]. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | The king, our lord, [...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | Adapa [...] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | everything [...] |
| Reverse [6:8] r 7'7'–r 8'8' | How [excellent is] what the ki[ng, our lord], has do[ne]! |
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-[ni] | |
| 2 | ARAD-MEŠ-ka {1}ba-[la-si-i] | |
| 3 | {1}{d}PA—PAB-MEŠ—[SU] | |
| 4 | lu-u šul-mu [a-na LUGAL] | |
| 5 | EN-ni | |
| 6 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU [a-na LUGAL] | |
| 7 | EN-ni lik-⸢ru⸣-[bu] | |
| 8 | ina UGU ša LUGAL [EN-ni] | |
| 9 | iš-pur-an-⸢na⸣-[ši-ni] | |
| 10 | ina UGU {⸢na₄⸣}[IGI.2-MEŠ] | |
| 11 | {na₄}ša₂-⸢an⸣-[dup-pi] | |
| 12 | ina ŠA₃ [x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | LUGAL [x] ⸢ni⸣ [x x šum-ma] | |
| 2' | {na₄}AŠ.GI₃.GI₃ ina [IGI LUGAL] | |
| 3' | EN-ni ma-hi-[ir le-pu-šu₂] | |
| 4' | LUGAL EN-ni ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 5' | a-da-pu [x x x] | |
| 6' | gab-bu [x x x] | |
| 7' | a-ke-e [x x x] | |
| 8' | be₂-et ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ni] | |
| 9' | e-pu-⸢uš⸣-[u-ni] | |
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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