ABL 0881 (P334604)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0881 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334604 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, my lord: your servant Babu-šumu-iddina. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk very greatly bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:16] o 77– | Concerning the watch about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, neither the moon nor the eclipse were seen. May they appoint a guardian of [he]alth and life for the king, my lord! |
| Reverse [2:5] r 33–r 55 | On the 15th day the god appeared with the god. |
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}BA.U₂—MU—AŠ | |
| 3 | lu šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}AG u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia a—dan-niš | |
| 6 | a—dan-niš lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | ina UGU ma-ṣar-te | |
| 8 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 9 | iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 10 | {d}30 AN.MI | |
| 11 | la in-nam-ru | |
| 12 | ma-ṣar-te | |
| 13 | [šul]-me u ba-la-⸢ṭi⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | TA@v LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 2 | lip-qid-du | |
| 3 | ina UD 15-KAM₂ | |
| 4 | DINGIR KI DINGIR | |
| 5 | it-ta-mar | |
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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