ABL 0823 (P334576)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0823 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334576 |
| 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/saa08 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:9] o 1o 1– | We ke[pt] watch on the 12th day; on the 13th day the moon and [sun] saw each other. May Nabû and Marduk bless [the king] my lord! |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [From Na]bû'a of Assur. |
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 | UD 12-KAM₂ | |
| 2 | ⸢ma⸣-ṣar-tu ni-⸢ta⸣-[ṣar] | |
| 3 | UD 13-KAM₂ {d}30 u {d}[UTU] | |
| 4 | [a]-he-iš e-ta-am-⸢ru⸣ | |
| 5 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | [a-na LUGAL] be-li₂-ia | |
| b.e. | ||
| 7 | [lik]-ru-bu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ša {1}na]-⸢bu⸣-u-a | |
| 2 | [ša {uru]}⸢ŠA₃⸣—URU | |
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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