ABL 0710 (P334503)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0710 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334503 |
| 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/saa13 · 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, Issar-[...], priest of Bet-Kidmuri. Good health to the king, my lord. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [5:9] o 66– | The mayor and the city overseer have come and said: "This is an order from the king: 'Send me a waterskin from Bet-Kidmuri.'" |
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 be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}15—⸢x⸣-[x x] | |
| 3 | {lu₂}SANGA ša E₂—kad-mu-ri | |
| 4 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU a-na MAN EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | {lu₂}ha-za-nu {lu₂}ša₂—UGU—URU | |
| 7 | it-tal-ku-ni ma-a a-bat MAN ⸢ši-i⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ma-a {kuš}maš-ku-ru | |
| 2 | TA@v E₂—kad-mu-ri bi-la-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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