ABL 1438 (P334908)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1438 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334908 |
| 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 [0:10] o 1o 1–o 1010 | [To the king, my lord: your servant Issar-nadin-apli], the forem[an of the collegium of ten] (scribes) of Arbela. Good health to the king, [my] lord! May Nabû, Marduk, and Ištar of Arbela bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [10:15] o 1111– | We kept the watch on the 29th day; the moon was seen. |
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}15—SUM—A] | |
| 3 | {lu₂}⸢GAL⸣—10-ti] {lu₂}⸢GAL⸣—10-ti] | |
| 4 | ša arba-⸢il₃⸣{[ki]} | |
| 5 | lu-u DI-mu | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL EN-[ia] | |
| 7 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 8 | {d}15 ša arba-il₃{ki} | |
| 9 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 10 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 11 | ina UD 29-KAM₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ma-ṣar-tu | |
| 2 | ni-ta-ṣa-ar | |
| 3 | {d}30 na-mur | |
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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