ABL 0735 (P334524)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0735 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334524 |
| 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 'farmer,' my lord: your servant, Nergal-šarrani. Good health to my lord. May [Nabû] and Marduk bless my lord. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [......] on the [... day] |
| Obverse [7:11] o 88– | [...... will] take up residence. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [...] the city of Ašš[ur] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...] the palace |
| Reverse [2:4] r 3'3'–r 4'4' | [The god will go o]ut and take up his seat. In the evening he will come back in. |
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 {lu₂}ENGAR EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}U.GUR—LUGAL-an-ni | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {[d}AG] u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | [a-na] EN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x]+⸢x⸣+[x x UD x]-KAM | |
| 7 | [x x x x x x x]-a | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x x]-šab | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 10 | [x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x] {uru}aš-⸢šur⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x] E₂.GAL | |
| 3' | [DINGIR uṣ]-ṣa uš-šab | |
| 4' | sa-ha-ar—UD-me sa-ha-ar—UD-me | |
| 5' | i-sa-hur e-rab | |
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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