ABL 1098 (P334735)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1098 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334735 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | To the king, my lord: your servant, Aššur-hamatu'a. Good health to the king, my lord. May Aššur, Sin, Šamaš, Ištar of Nineveh, and Ištar [of] Arbela bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [8:15] o 99–o 1515 | Concerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me, the royal [images] stood on [the right] and left sides [of Iš]tar [......] |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1'1'–r 4'4' | [...] May [the gods] who dwell in Arbela bless 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}aš-šur—ha-mat-u-a | |
| 3 | lu-u šul-mu | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | aš-šur {d}30 {d}UTU {d}15 | |
| 6 | ⸢ša⸣ {uru}ni-nu-a {d}15 | |
| 7 | [ša] {uru}arba-il₃ a-na LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 8 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 9 | ina UGU ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 10 | iš-pu-ra-an-ni-ni | |
| 11 | [NU]—LUGAL-MEŠ-ni [NU]—LUGAL-MEŠ-ni | |
| 12 | [ZAG] u 150 | |
| 13 | [ša {d]}15 it-ti-ti-su | |
| 14 | [x x x]-nu | |
| 15 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-su-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2' | [DINGIR-MEŠ] a-ši-bu-⸢te⸣ | |
| 3' | {[uru]}arba-il₃ | |
| 4' | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5' | lik-ru-bu | |
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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