ABL 0986 (P334662)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0986 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334662 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, my lord: your [ser]vant Ṭudî. [Go]od health to the king, my lord! May [Nabû] (and) Marduk bless the king, [my lord]! |
| Obverse [5:7] o 66–o 77 | [As to the] Babylonians [about whom the king, my lord, wr]ote to me: "[......] |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | [... La]ter, the king, my lord, may do as he sees fit. |
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-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ⸢ARAD⸣-ka {1}ṭu-di-i | |
| 3 | ⸢lu⸣ DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {[d}AG] {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | [be-li₂-ia₂] lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | [ina UGU-hi] ⸢DUMU⸣-MEŠ—KA₂.DINGIR{ki} ⸢DUMU⸣-MEŠ—KA₂.DINGIR{ki} | |
| 7 | [ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš]-pur-an-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x] iš-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x ha]-⸢ram⸣-ma-ma a-ki | |
| 3' | ša LUGAL be-li₂ i-la-u-ni | |
| 4' | le-pu-uš | |
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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