ABL 0929 (P334628)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0929 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334628 |
| 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 Balasî. Good health to the king, [my lord]! [May] Nabû and Marduk [bless the king, my lord]! |
| Reverse [0:7] r 1'1'– | Let the man come tom[or]row. May Bel and Nabû bless the king! See his success! |
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}⸢ba-la⸣-si-i | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | [EN-ia] {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢LU₂ a—ši-ia⸣-ri a—ši-ia⸣-ri | |
| 2' | lil-li-ka | |
| 3' | EN {d}PA a-na LUGAL | |
| 4' | lik-ru-bu | |
| 5' | ne₂-me-el₂-šu₂ | |
| 6' | a-mur | |
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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