ABL 0829 (P334582)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0829 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334582 |
| 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 [0:11] o 1o 1–o 1111 | To the king, my lord: your servant Issar-nadin-apli, the foreman of the collegium of ten scribes of Arbela. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû], Marduk, and Ištar of Arbela bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [11:18] o 1212– | We kept watch on the 29th day; the place of observation was cloudy, we did not see the moon. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | Month of Shebat (XI), 1st day, eponym year of Bel-Harran-šadu'a (650). |
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 LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}15—SUM—A | |
| 3 | {lu₂}GAL—10-ti {lu₂}GAL—10-ti | |
| 4 | ša {lu₂}A.BA-MEŠ | |
| 5 | ša {uru}arba-il₃ | |
| 6 | lu-u DI-mu | |
| 7 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 8 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 9 | {d}15 ša {uru}arba-il₃ | |
| 10 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 11 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 12 | ina UD 29-KAM₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ma-ṣar-tu | |
| 2 | ni-ta-ṣa-ar | |
| 3 | be₂-et ta-mar-ti | |
| 4 | IM.DIRI | |
| 5 | {d}30 la ne₂-mur | |
| 6 | {iti}ZIZ₂ UD 01-KAM₂\t | |
| 7 | lim-mu {1}EN—KASKAL—KUR-u-a | |
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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