ABL 0978 (P334656)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0978 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334656 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the ki[ng], my [lord], your servant [Aššur]-remanni. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | The land of the king, my lord, is well; the mood of the land is very good. |
| Obverse [7:9] o 88–o 99 | As to the people about whom the king, [my lord, wrote me ......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | I am herewith sen[ding them to 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⸣ [be-li₂]-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-⸢ka {1}{[d}aš-šur]—rem₂-an-ni | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | DI-mu a-na KUR | |
| 5 | ša\y LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 6 | lib-bi KUR | |
| 7 | a—dan-niš ṭa\d-a-ba\t | |
| 8 | ina UGU UN-MEŠ\dp | |
| 9 | ša\y LUGAL [be-li₂] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢us-se⸣-[bi-la] | |
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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