ABL 0840 (P334585)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0840 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334585 |
| 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/saa13 · 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 king, our lord]: y[our servants], Ṭab-šar-Sin, Akkullanu, and Marduk-šallim-ahhe. [Good health t]o the king, our lord. [May Aššur, (Sin)], Šamaš, [Nabû], Marduk [...... bless the king, our lord] |
| Reverse [1:5] r 2'2'–r 5'5' | We did [not] perform [the ......]. [... we will writ]e to the king, [our lord, con]cerning the final accounting of [the ...]. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | (r 6') (Rest destroyed) |
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 be-li-ni] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-MEŠ-ni]-⸢ka⸣ {1}DUG₃.GA—IM—30 | |
| 3 | {1}ak]-kul-la-nu | |
| 4 | {1}{d]}AMAR.UTU—šal-lim—PAB-MEŠ | |
| 5 | [lu DI-mu] a-na LUGAL be-li-ni | |
| 6 | [aš-šur {(d}30 {d}ša₂-maš | |
| 7 | {[d}AG] {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x la ne₂]-⸢pu⸣-uš | |
| 3' | [x x ina] UGU šal-lu-un-ti | |
| 4' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-na LUGAL | |
| 5' | [EN-ni ni-šap-pa]-ra | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x] | |
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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