ABL 1087 (P334729)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1087 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334729 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | [To the king, my lord: your servant Ina-šar-Bel-allak. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord]! May [the gods] resi[ding in] Du[r-Šarruken] give the king [my lord] length of days! |
| Obverse [6:12] o 77–o 1212 | The continual sheep offerings which the king my lord organized for the Nabû temple have been regularly provided by the cohort within my city; [...... |
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-ia₂] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}ina—IM—EN—a-lak] | |
| 3 | [lu-u₂ šul-mu a-na MAN EN-ia₂] | |
| 4 | {[d}PA {d}MES a-na MAN EN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu] | |
| 5 | [DINGIR-MEŠ] a-ši-[bu-te] {⸢uru}BAD₃⸣—[MAN—GIN] | |
| 6 | UD-MEŠ GID₂\tdp.DA-[MEŠ] a-na [MAN EN-ia₂] | |
| 7 | lid-din-[nu] UDU-⸢MEŠ⸣ da₃\d-ri-[e] | |
| 8 | ⸢ša⸣ MAN be-li₂ a-na E₂—{⸢d⸣}[PA] | |
| 9 | ⸢ik⸣-ṣur-u-ni ina ki-iṣ-ri [o] | |
| 10 | [ša] ⸢ŠA₃⸣ URU-ia sad-ru [o] | |
| 11 | [x] tur [x x x x x x] | |
| 12 | [x] ⸢li⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | la i-⸢di⸣-[nu x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ina E₂.GAL [x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ma-a šal ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | aq\d-ṭa-[x x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | u₂-⸢ṣa⸣-[x x x x x x x] | |
| 6' | u₂-ma-⸢a⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 7' | ma-a ⸢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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