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ABL 0785 (P334556)

Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationABL 0785
IDP334556
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreLetter
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33[To] the king, [my] lo[rd: your servant] Aššur-alik-[pani. Good] health to the king, [my lord]!
Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77[When] the king, my lord, [se]nt me [to the ho]use of the palace her[ald, the king], my [lo]rd, said [to me]:

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
o
1[a-na] LUGAL be-[li₂-ia]
2[ARAD-ka] {1}aš-šur—a-lik—[pa-ni]
3[lu DI]-mu a-na LUGAL [EN-ia]
4[ki-i] LUGAL be-li₂
5[a-na] ⸢E₂⸣ {lu₂v}600—E₂.⸢GAL⸣ {lu₂v}600—E₂.⸢GAL⸣
6[iš-pu]-ra-ni-ni
7[LUGAL be]-li₂ iq-ṭi₂-bi-[a]

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