ABL 1069 (P334714)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1069 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334714 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1'1'–o 5'5' | We will look it up [...], and I shall send the king, my lord, a ta[blet] dealing with the halo of the moon. |
| Obverse [5:16] o 6'6'– | Concerning the watch for a lunar eclipse about which the king, my lord, wrote to me — its watch will be (kept) [on the deci]ded [night]; (but) [whether] its [wat]ch should be during sunset, [we have not been able to de]cide. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | (r 1) (Break) |
| Reverse [3:13] r 44–r 1212 | [Eclipses] cannot occur [dur]ing certain periods. [After] 4 months, there was a watch in Marchesvan (VIII), and now, in the month Kislev (IX), we will (again) keep watch. A[s the]se watche[s] |
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' | ⸢x x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 2' | ne₂-mu-ur ⸢ṭup⸣-[pu] | |
| 3' | ša TUR₃ ša {d}30 | |
| 4' | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5' | a-šap-pa-ra | |
| 6' | ina UGU ma-ṣar-ti | |
| 7' | ša AN.MI {d}30 | |
| 8' | ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 9' | iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 10' | [mu-šu par]-⸢su⸣ ma-ṣar-tu-šu₂ | |
| 10a' | [x x pa]-⸢ar⸣-su | |
| 11' | [šum-ma ina] {d}ša₂-maš ra-⸢be₂⸣-e | |
| b.e. | ||
| 12' | [ma-ṣar]-tu-šu₂ | |
| 13' | [la ni-ip]-ru-us | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-a | |
| 2 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-šu₂ | |
| 3 | [x x x x la]-aš₂-šu₂ | |
| 4 | [AN.MI ina] ⸢ŠA₃⸣ UD.DUG₄.GA-MEŠ | |
| 4a | [o] a-da-an-na-a-te | |
| 5 | [us-se]-et-iq | |
| 6 | [ur-ki] 04 ITI-MEŠ | |
| 7 | {iti}⸢APIN⸣ ma-ṣar-tu-šu₂ | |
| 8 | u₂-ma-a {iti}KAN | |
| 9 | ni-na-ṣar | |
| 10 | ⸢a⸣-[ki] ma-ṣar-⸢a⸣-[ti] | |
| 11 | [an-na]-ti ⸢ITI⸣ [x x] | |
| 12 | [x x x] 30 [x x] | |
Sources & licences
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