ABL 0979 (P334657)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0979 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334657 |
| 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 [0:9] o 1o 1– | To the king, my lord: your servant, Marduk-šallim-ahhe, the one who blesses you. [Good hea]lth to the king, my lord. May [Aššur], Sin, Šamaš, Bel, Nabû, Ištar of Nineveh, and Ištar o[f Arbela greatly bless the king, my lord ...]. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [What is it that the king, my lord], commands? |
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}AMAR.UTU—šal-lim—PAB-MEŠ | |
| 3 | ⸢ka⸣-ri-ib-ka | |
| 4 | [lu DI]-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 5 | {d}[aš-šur] {d}30 {d}UTU {d}EN {d}AG | |
| 6 | {d}15 ša {uru}NINA | |
| 7 | {d}15 ⸢ša⸣ {[uru}arba-il₃] | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | i-qab-bu-u-ni | |
Sources & licences
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