ABL 0697 (P334494)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0697 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334494 |
| 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, my lord: your servant Nabû-ahhe-eriba. Good health to the king, my lord! [May] Aššur, Bel, Nabû, Sin, Nergal, Ištar of Nineveh, Ištar of Arbela [...] |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | [The king may ask] the scribe of the pa[lace]. The house is sealed. |
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-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}aš-šur {d}EN {d}AG | |
| 5 | {d}30 {d}U.GUR | |
| 6 | {d}15 ša NINA{ki} | |
| 7 | {d}15 ša {uru}arba-il₃ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2' | {lu₂v}A.BA—E₂.[GAL {lu₂v}A.BA—E₂.[GAL liš-al] | |
| 3' | E₂ ka-nik | |
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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