ABL 0824 (P334577)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0824 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334577 |
| 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 kept watch on the ...th day; on the ...]th [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 Nab]û'a [of A]ssur. |
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 x-KAM₂] | |
| 2 | [ma-ṣar-tu ni-ta-ṣar] | |
| 3 | [UD x]-KAM₂ {d}30 u {d}ša₂-maš] | |
| 4 | [a]-he-iš e-[ta-am-ru] | |
| 5 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL EN-⸢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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