ABL 1347 (P334856)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1347 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334856 |
| 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 | T[o the ki]ng, [my] lord: your servant Nabû-na[ṣir]. May Nabû and Marduk very greatly bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:9] o 77–o 99 | The [charge] of [the 'Lady of Cults'] is doing very, very well; the king, [my lord, can be g]lad. |
| Obverse [9:18] o 1010– | When the king, [my lord], was in Tarbiṣu, [I wr]ote [to the ki]ng, my lord: "A good dream [concerning the char]ge of the 'Lady of Cults' has been seen, I have heard his utterance." |
| Reverse [2:5] r 33–r 55 | Now he is doing very well; [the gods] ha[ve bles]sed [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⸣ be-li₂-[ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}AG—na-[ṣi-ir] | |
| 3 | {d}AG u₃ {d}AMAR.[UTU] | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 5 | a—dan-niš a—dan-niš lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | DI-mu a—dan-niš a—dan-niš | |
| 7 | a-na [pi-qit-te] | |
| 8 | ša {d}[GAŠAN—par-ṣi] | |
| 9 | ŠA₃-bi ša LUGAL [be-li₂-ia lu ṭa-ab-šu₂] | |
| 10 | a-ki LUGAL [be-li₂] | |
| 11 | ina {uru}tar-⸢bi-ṣi⸣ | |
| 12 | [šu]-⸢tu⸣-u₂-ni | |
| 13 | [a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂-ia | |
| 14 | [as-sa]-pa-ra {mu}muk | |
| 15 | [ša pi-qit]-te ša {d}GAŠAN—par-ṣi | |
| r | ||
| 1 | šu-tu-šu₂ de-iq-⸢tu₂⸣ am-rat | |
| 2 | e-gi-ra-šu₂ as-se-me | |
| 3 | u₂-⸢ma⸣-[a] DI-mu a—dan-niš | |
| 4 | [DINGIR-MEŠ a-na LUGAL] be-li₂-ia | |
| 5 | ⸢ik⸣-[tar]-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
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