ABL 1147 (P334755)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1147 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334755 |
| 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 [0:14] o 1o 1– | [To the king, my lord: your servant, Urdu-Nabû. Good health to the king, my lord. May Aššur, Sin, Šamaš, Bel, Zarpanitu], Nabû, [Tašmetu], Ištar of Nineveh, and [Ištar of Arbela] — these great gods who love your kingship — allow the king, my lord, to live 100 years. [May they grant the king, my lord, the satisfaction of] old age, extreme old age. |
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}ARAD—{d}PA] | |
| 3 | [lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂] | |
| 4 | [aš-šur {d}30 {d}UTU {d}EN {d}zar-pa-ni-tum] | |
| 5 | {d}AG {[d}taš-me-tum] | |
| 6 | {d}15 ša₂ NINA{⸢ki⸣} {[d}15 ša₂ {uru}arba-il₃] | |
| 7 | DINGIR-MEŠ an-nu-ti GAL-MEŠ | |
| 8 | ra-ʾi-mu-ti LUGAL-ti-ka | |
| 9 | 01 me MU.AN.NA-MEŠ | |
| 10 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 11 | lu-bal-li-ṭu | |
| 12 | ši-bu-tu lit-tu-tu | |
| 13 | [a-na LUGAL EN-ia lu-šab-bi-u₂] | |
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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