ABL 0990 (P334665)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0990 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334665 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:13] o 1o 1– | [To] the king, my lord: [your servant] Ina-šar-Bal-allak. [Good] health [to] the king, my lord! [May Na]bû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! [May the gods] residing in Dur-Šarruken give the king my lord length of [days]! |
| Reverse [0:10] r 1r 1–r 1010 | [The ...] of (which) the ki[ng, my lord, ...... have e]ntered [... and ...] 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⸣ EN-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka] {1}ina—IM—EN—DU-ak\td | |
| 3 | [lu-u₂] šul-mu | |
| 4 | [a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ia | |
| 5 | {[d]}⸢AG⸣ {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | [a-na] LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 7 | [lik]-ru-bu\tdp | |
| 8 | [DINGIR-MEŠ] a-ši-bu\tdp-tu₂ | |
| 9 | {[uru]}⸢BAD₃⸣—MAN—GI.NA | |
| 10 | [UD-MEŠ] GID₂\tdp.DA-MEŠ | |
| 11 | [a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ia | |
| 12 | [lid]-⸢di⸣-nu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x] ⸢ša LUGAL⸣ [be-li₂] | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | ⸢iš-pu\td-ra⸣-[an-ni x x] | |
| 4 | [e]-tar-bu\tdp-[u-ni] | |
| 5 | [a-na] LUGAL EN-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 6 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 7 | [x x x x x x] | |
| 8 | [x x x LUGAL] EN-ia₂ | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x] | |
| 10 | [x x x x x 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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