ABL 1227 + (P334807)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1227 + |
|---|---|
| ID | P334807 |
| 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 Nabû-pašir. Go]od he[alth to the king, my lord]! May Sin [and Nikkal] bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:16] o 77–o 1616 | Se'-gabbari, the priest of Nerab, a servant of the king, together with Nur-S[in] the prefect and Dadi-ibni, a servant of the governor of A[rpa]d [......] fro[m M]elid [...... |
| Reverse [0:7] r 1'1'–r 7'7' | Let them accept and assign [... where] the king my lord [a]sked, and let him go to his duty and invoke blessings upon the king my lord before Sin and Nikkal. |
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 be-li₂-ia₂] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}{d}AG—pa-šir] | |
| 3 | ⸢lu DI⸣-[mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂] | |
| 4 | {⸢d⸣}30 [u₃ {d]}⸢NIN.GAL⸣ | |
| 5 | ⸢a⸣-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be]-⸢li₂⸣-ia₂ | |
| 6 | lik-[ru]-bu | |
| 7 | {1}se-eʾ—⸢ga⸣-ba-ri | |
| 8 | {lu₂vy}SANGA ⸢ša₂ {uru⸣}ne₂-ri-bi | |
| 9 | {lu₂}ARAD ⸢ša₂⸣ LUGAL | |
| 10 | {1}ZALAG₂—{d}30 {lu₂vy}GAR-nu | |
| 11 | {1}U.U—DU₃ {[lu₂]}ARAD ša₂ {lu₂vy}EN.NAM | |
| 12 | ⸢ša₂⸣ {uru}⸢ar⸣-[pad]-⸢da⸣ is-si-šu₂ | |
| 13 | ⸢TA@v⸣ [ŠA₃ {uru]}⸢me⸣-li-di\d | |
| 14 | [x x x x]-⸢ba⸣-li | |
| 15 | [x x x x x] tu | |
| 16 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x] li\d-hu-ru | |
| 2' | [lip]-qi₂-du | |
| 3' | [E₂] LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 4' | [iš]-al-u₂-ni | |
| 5' | šu-u₂ a-na ma-ṣar-ti\t-šu₂ | |
| 6' | lil-lik a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 7' | ina IGI {d}30 u {d}NIN.GAL | |
| 8' | ⸢lik⸣-ru-ub | |
Sources & licences
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