ABL 0908 (P334619)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0908 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334619 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [To the king], my lord: [your servant] Nergal-šumu-iddina. The very best of [health] to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:7] o 55–o 77 | The sun was [eclipsed on the 29]th, [in the m]iddle of the day. |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | [...] here |
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}U.GUR—MU—AŠ | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu] a-na MAN EN-ia | |
| 4 | [a—dan-niš] a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | [UD 29-KAM₂ {d}ša₂-maš | |
| 6 | [ina] ⸢mu⸣-ṣu-la-li | |
| 7 | [AN.MI] i-sa-kan | |
| 8 | [x x x] ⸢an-na⸣-ka | |
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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