ABL 1381 (P334876)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1381 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334876 |
| Museum no. | BM 099006 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, my lord: your servant Nergal-šumu-iddina. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:11] o 66–o 1111 | Concerning the watch about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, the moon let the eclipse pass by, [it did not occ]ur. |
| Obverse [11:18] o 1212– | May [Sin an Š]amaš appoint a gu[ardian of he]alth and life for 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}{d}U.GUR—MU—AŠ | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ina UGU ma-ṣar-ti | |
| 7 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 8 | iš-pu-ra-an-ni | |
| 9 | {d}30 AN.MI | |
| 10 | u₂-se-ti-iq | |
| 11 | [la iš]-⸢kun⸣ | |
| 12 | {[d}30 u {d]}⸢UTU⸣ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 13 | [o] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ma-[ṣar] ⸢šul⸣-mi | |
| 2 | u₃ ba-⸢la⸣-ṭi | |
| 3 | TA@v LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | lip-qi-du | |
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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