ABL 1223 (P334804)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1223 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334804 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To [the king, my lord]: your servant N[abû-pašir]. Good health to the king, my lord! May Sin and Nikkal bless the king, my lord! May Adad and Buru bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [7:12] o 88–o 1212 | I have finished the city of Duru. The ... has been plastered; ......; I have installed the drain-pipes [...... |
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⸣}[AG—pa-šir] | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 4 | {d}30 {d}NIN.GAL a-na | |
| 5 | LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | {⸢d⸣}IM {d}⸢bu⸣-ru\d a-na | |
| 7 | LUGAL EN-⸢ia⸣ lik-ru-bu | |
| 8 | {uru}⸢BAD₃⸣ ug\d-da\d-mir | |
| 9 | 01-te\p ⸢me⸣ [x] si-i-ri | |
| 10 | {giš}⸢ZU\t-MEŠ⸣-ni ša₂ kan-ni | |
| 11 | {giš}pi-⸢sa-na⸣-a-te ⸢a-sa-kan⸣ | |
| 12 | ⸢x⸣+[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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