ABL 0696 (P334493)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0696 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334493 |
| 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 lord: your servant] Nabû-ahhe-[eriba]. [Good hea]lth to the king, [my lord]! May [Nabû], Marduk, Ištar of [Nineveh] and [Ištar] of Arbela give long lasting [days], everlasting years, happiness and joy to the king, my lord! (10) [As to what the king], my [lord], wr[ote 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 LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka] {1}{d}PA—PAB-⸢MEŠ⸣—[SU] | |
| 3 | [lu DI]-mu a-na LUGAL [EN-ia] | |
| 4 | {[d}PA] {d}AMAR.UTU {d}15 ša [NINA{ki]} | |
| 5 | {[d}15 ša {uru}arba-il₃ | |
| 6 | [UD-MEŠ] ar-ku-u-te | |
| 7 | [MU].AN.NA-MEŠ da-ra-a-te | |
| 8 | [ṭu]-ub ŠA₃-bi hu-ud ŠA₃-bi | |
| 9 | [a-na] LUGAL EN-ia lid-di-nu | |
| 10 | [ša LUGAL be]-⸢li₂⸣ iš-[pur-an-ni] | |
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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