ABL 0882 (P334605)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0882 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334605 |
| 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 of Calah. Go[od health] to the king, my lord! May [Nabû and] Marduk bless [the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [6:10] o 77–o 1010 | [The moon was e]clipsed [on the ...th day, during] the evening watch; [...] culminated, [the ... wind] was blowing. |
| Obverse [10:16] o 1111– | May [Sin and] Šamaš appoint [a guardian] of health [and] life for 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 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}BA.U₂—MU—AŠ | |
| 3 | ša {[uru]}kal-ha | |
| 4 | ⸢lu⸣ [šul-mu] a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | {[d}AG u] {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | [a-na LUGAL EN]-⸢ia⸣ lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | [UD x-KAM₂ ina EN].NUN—AN.USAN₂ | |
| 8 | {[mul}x x x] ziq-pu | |
| 9 | {[im}x x x] DU-ak | |
| 10 | {[d}30 AN.MI] ⸢is⸣-sa-kan | |
| 11 | {[d}30 u] {⸢d⸣}UTU | |
| 12 | [ma-ṣar-te] šul-me | |
| 13 | [u₃] ⸢ba⸣-la-ṭi | |
| r | ||
| 1 | TA@v LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 2 | lip-qid-du | |
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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