ABL 0959 (P334647)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0959 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334647 |
| 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/saa13 · 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 Nabû-šumu-iddina. The very best of health to the king, my lord]! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:16] o 77– | Today is New Year's Day. May Bel and Nabû turn the days of the king, my lord, into success and the years of the king, my lord, into profit! [May they grant him] an old age of well-being [... de]liberation! |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | [......] have come in [today]. [...] |
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 be-li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}{d}PA—MU—AŠ] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 4 | [a—dan-niš a—dan-niš] | |
| 5 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | UD-mu an-ni-u₂ re-eš MU.AN.NA | |
| 8 | EN {d}PA UD-me ša LUGAL | |
| 9 | be-li₂-ia a-na ku-ši-i-⸢ri⸣ | |
| 10 | MU.AN.NA-MEŠ ša LUGAL | |
| 11 | be-li₂-ia a-na ne₂-me-li | |
| 12 | li-im-nu-u₂ ši-bu-u₂-[tu] | |
| 13 | ša ṭu-ub ŠA₃-bi | |
| 14 | [x x] ⸢ši⸣-tu-li | |
| 15 | [x x x x x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | o e-tar-⸢bu⸣-u-ni [x x] | |
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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