ABL 1096 (P334733)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1096 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334733 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | [To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-ahhe-eriba]. [Good health to the k]ing, my lord! May [Nabû] and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:29] o 77– | Concerning the report on the lunar eclipse about which the king, my lord, wrote to me — they used to receive and introduce all astrological reports into the presence of the father of the king, my lord. Afterwards, a man whom the father of the king, my lord, knew, used to read them to the king in a qirsu on the river bank. Nowadays it should be done as it (best) suits 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}{d}PA—PAB-MEŠ—SU] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ia | |
| 4 | {[d}PA] {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 6 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | ina UGU u₂-il₃-ti | |
| 8 | ša AN.MI {d}30 | |
| 9 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 10 | iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 11 | ina IGI AD-šu₂ ša LUGAL | |
| 12 | EN-ia u₂-il₃-a-ti | |
| 13 | ša {lu₂}A.BA UD—AN—{d}EN.LIL₂ | |
| 14 | gab-bu i-mah-hu-ru | |
| b.e. | ||
| 15 | u₂-še-er-ru-bu | |
| 16 | ur-ke-e-et | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina UGU ID₂ | |
| 2 | {lu₂}ERIM-MEŠ | |
| 3 | ša AD-šu₂ ša LUGAL | |
| 4 | EN-ia u₂-da-aš₂-šu₂-un-ni | |
| 5 | ina {giš}qir-si | |
| 6 | ina IGI LUGAL i-sa-as-si | |
| 7 | u₂-ma-a | |
| 8 | ki ša ina IGI LUGAL | |
| 9 | EN-ia ma-hi-ir-u-ni | |
| 10 | [le]-pu-u-šu | |
| 11 | [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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