ABL 0770 (P334545)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0770 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334545 |
| 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 Nabû-šarru-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bl[ess] the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [5:9] o 66– | As to what the king, [my lord, wrote me] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | which the k[ing ......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | "if [...], |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | "I shall g[o and ...]; |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | "thereafter I shall item[ise them]." |
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}AG—MAN—PAB | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na MAN EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}AG u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-[ru-bu] | |
| 6 | ina UGU ša LUGAL [be-li₂] | |
| 7 | [x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ma-a šum-ma hu-[x x x x] | |
| 3' | ma-a al-[x x x x] | |
| 4' | ma-a id—da-a-te id—da-a-te a-sa-[dir] | |
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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