ABL 0691 (P334489)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0691 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334489 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Balasî. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44–o 99 | The king sho[uld not] be afraid of this eclipse! The planets Jupiter, Venus and [Sa]turn were present [during the eclipse]. |
| Obverse [9:11] o 1010–o 1111 | [The gre]at [gods ......]... |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1'1'–r 2'2' | [May ......] give [life of distant days, old age and fullness of life to the kin]g, [my] lo[rd]. |
| Reverse [2:6] r 3'3'–r 6'6' | [Akkull]anu will read and explain [the rep]ort on the lunar [eclipse] [be]fore the king. |
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}ba-la-si-i | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | EN-ia ina UGU AN.MI | |
| 5 | an-ni-i-e LUGAL | |
| 6 | ⸢lu la⸣ i-pa-lah₃ | |
| 7 | {⸢mul⸣}SAG.ME.GAR {mul}dil-bat | |
| 8 | {[mul}UDU].IDIM.SAG.UŠ | |
| 9 | [ina AN.MI iz-za]-az-zu | |
| 10 | [DINGIR-MEŠ] ⸢GAL⸣-MEŠ | |
| 11 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [a-na] ⸢LUGAL EN⸣-[ia] | |
| 2' | [li]-id-di-nu | |
| 3' | [u₂-il₃]-tu₂ ša | |
| 4' | [AN.MI] {d}30 | |
| 5' | [ina] ⸢IGI LUGAL⸣ | |
| 6' | {1}a-kul]-⸢la⸣-nu ⸢i⸣-sa-as-si | |
| 7' | ⸢u₂⸣-ša₂-ah-ka-am | |
Sources & licences
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