ABL 0719 (P334509)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0719 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334509 |
| 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 [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | [To the ki]ng, our lord: [your servants] Nabû-naṣir and [Urad]-Nanaya. The very best of health to the king, our lord! May Aššur, Sin, Šamaš, Ninurta and Gula bless the king, our lord! |
| Obverse [8:12] o 99–o 1212 | The mother of the king is doing very [we]ll. [Veri]ly she has [re]covered [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [We] cooked [...]... |
| Reverse [2:7] r 3'3'–r 7'7' | they settled [...]. Now she has recovered and is very well. The king, our lord, can be glad. |
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-i-ni | |
| 2 | [ARAD-MEŠ]-⸢ka⸣ {1}{d}PA—PAB—ir | |
| 3 | {1}ARAD]—{d}na-na-a | |
| 4 | [lu] ⸢DI⸣-mu a—dan-niš a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | [a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL be-li₂-ni | |
| 6 | [aš]-šur {d}30 {d}UTU | |
| 7 | {[d]}MAŠ u {d}gu-la | |
| 8 | [a-na] LUGAL EN-ni lik-ru-bu | |
| 9 | [DI]-mu a—dan-niš a-na {mi₂}AMA—LUGAL {mi₂}AMA—LUGAL | |
| 10 | [šum]-ma ši-ir-ša₂ | |
| 11 | [la i-ṭi]-⸢bu⸣-ši-i-ni | |
| 12 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x]-⸢ka⸣-li-a-ni | |
| 2' | [nu]-us-sa-ab-ši-il | |
| 3' | [x x] it-tu-uš-bu | |
| 4' | [u₂]-ma-a ši-ir-ša₂ | |
| 5' | [i]-ṭi-ab-ši | |
| 6' | ⸢šul⸣-mu a—dan-niš | |
| 7' | [ŠA₃]-bu ša LUGAL be-li₂-ni | |
| 8' | lu-u DUG₃.GA | |
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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