ABL 0869 (P334597)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0869 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334597 |
| 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 [0:10] o 1'1'– | [Concerning the watch for a lunar eclipse] about which the king, [my lo]rd, wrote to me, its watch will be (kept) tonight, in the morning watch. The eclipse will occur during the morning watch. |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44 | The watch is (kept) [for the safety] of the king, my [lord]; (all) will be well with 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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2' | ša LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[li₂] | |
| 3' | iš-pur-a-[ni] | |
| 4' | mu-šu an-⸢ni⸣-[u₂] | |
| 5' | ina EN.NUN—UD.⸢ZAL⸣.[LA] | |
| 5'a | e-nu-un—u₂-⸢za-al⸣-la | |
| 6' | ma-ṣar-tu-šu₂ | |
| 7' | AN.MI EN.NUN—UD.ZAL.LI | |
| 8' | i-ša₂-kan | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | [ša] LUGAL [EN]-ia | |
| 3 | ma-ṣar-tu₂ LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 4 | šul-mu | |
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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