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ABL 0818 (P334571)

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

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DesignationABL 0818
IDP334571
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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû'a. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord!
Obverse [5:10] o 66–We kept the watch; on the 14th day the moon and the sun saw each other.

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
1a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia
2ARAD-ka {1}na-bu-u-a
3{d}AG u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU
4a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia
5lik-ru-bu
6ma-ṣar-tu ni-ta-ṣar
7UD 14-KAM₂ {d}30
8{d}ša₂-maš a-he-iš
9e-ta-am-ru

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