ABL 1444 (P334911)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1444 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334911 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1'1'–o 2'2' | [May] N[abû and Marduk bless] the king, [my lord]! |
| Obverse [2:9] o 3'3'– | A lunar eclipse took place on the 14th of Sivan (III), [during] the morning watch. It started in the south (of the moon) and cleared up in the south. Its right side was eclipsed. |
| Reverse [0:6] r 1r 1–r 66 | It was eclipsed in the area of the constellation Scorpius. The shoulder of the constellation Panther was culminating. An eclipse of two fingers (magnitude) took place. |
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' | {⸢d⸣}[AG u {d}AMAR.UTU] | |
| 2' | a-na LUGAL [EN-ia lik-ru-bu] | |
| 3' | ina {iti}SIG₄ [UD] 14-KAM⸣ | |
| 4' | 30 AN.MI [ina] EN.NUN—UD.ZAL | |
| 5' | i-sa-kan | |
| 6' | ina {im}U₁₈.LU i-sa-kan | |
| 7' | ina {im}U₁₈.LU u₂-zak-ki | |
| 8' | ina ZAG-šu₂ a-dir | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina KI {mul}GIR₂.TAB a-dir | |
| 2 | {mul}ku-ma-ru | |
| 3 | ša {mul}UD.KA.DU₈.A | |
| 4 | ziq-pu | |
| 5 | 02 ŠU.SI AN.MI | |
| 6 | <$x x$> i-sa-kan | |
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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