ABL 0816 (P334569)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0816 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334569 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To the 'farmer,' my lord: your servant Nabû-šumu-iddina, the foreman of the collegium of ten (scribes) of Nineveh. May Nabû and Marduk bless the 'farmer,' my lord! |
| Obverse [7:12] o 88– | On the 14th day we were watching the moon; the moon was eclipsed. |
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-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}PA—MU—AŠ | |
| 3 | {lu₂}GAL—10-te {lu₂}GAL—10-te | |
| 4 | ša NINA{ki} | |
| 5 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | a-na {lu₂}ENGAR | |
| 7 | EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 8 | UD 14-KAM₂ EN.NUN.NA | |
| 9 | ša {d}30 | |
| 10 | ni-ta-ṣar | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {d}30 AN.MI | |
| 2 | is-sa-kan | |
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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