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ABL 0860 (P334592)

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

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DesignationABL 0860
IDP334592
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/saa01 · 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 (sic) Nabû-beli-uṣur and Denanu. Good health to the king, my lord!
Obverse [5:12] o 66–As to the people about whom the king my lord wrote to me, I have sent 276 persons with Burṣaruru the royal bodyguard.
Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44To the king, [my lord: your servant Nabû-beli-uṣur. Good health] to [the king], my lord!

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\d LUGAL EN-ia
2ARAD-ka {1}{d}PA—U—PAB
3{1}di\d-na-nu
4lu-u DI\d-mu a-na\d
5LUGAL EN-ia
6a-na UGU UN-MEŠ
7ša\ydm LUGAL EN iš-pur-an-ni
802 me 76 ZI-MEŠ
9ŠU.2 {1}bur—ṣa-ru\d-ru
10{lu₂vy}qur-bu-⸢ti\t⸣
11u₂\m-se-bi-⸢la⸣
r
1a-na\d LUGAL <$EN-ia$>
2<$ARAD-ka {1}x x x$>
3<$lu DI-mu$> a-⸢na⸣
4<$LUGAL$> EN-ia

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