ABL 1427 (P334900)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1427 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334900 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | [To] the king, [my] lo[rd]: your [servant Nabû-šumu-iddina]. The very be[st] of health to [the king, my lord]! May Nabû and Mar[duk] bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:14] o 77– | The 5 wounded Egyptian horses from Adad-ereš [abou]t which the king, my lord, wrote to me [...]... Egypt [......] |
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}[PA—MU—AŠ] | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na [LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 4 | a—dan-niš a—dan-[niš] | |
| 5 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.[UTU] | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | 05 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ {kur}mu-ṣur-a.[a] | |
| 8 | si-im-ma-ta-nu-te | |
| 9 | ša {1}{d}IM—APIN-eš [o] | |
| 10 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ [o] | |
| 11 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣-šu₂-nu iš-pur-u-ni [o] | |
| 12 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ {kur}mu-ṣur [x x] | |
| 13 | [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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