ABL 0700 (P334495)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0700 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334495 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, my lord: your servant Bel-iqiša. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk [very] greatly bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [...] Guzana |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | [...] in my lord's household |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | [... re]gular [sheep offering] |
| Obverse [8:13] o 99–o 1313 | [... gi]ves |
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}EN—BA-ša₂ | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {[d]}AG {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | [a—dan-niš] a—dan-niš lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | [x x x x] {uru}gu-za-na | |
| 7 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ina E₂—EN-MEŠ-ia E₂—EN-MEŠ-ia | |
| 8 | [x x x x x]-ri-i | |
| 9 | [x x x x x]-⸢da⸣-an | |
| 10 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 11 | [x x x x x x x]-ni | |
| 12 | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 13 | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
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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