HAV 256 - 257 (P336173)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | HAV 256 - 257 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336173 |
| Museum no. | unknown |
| Collection | unlocated |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Kuyunjik (Nineveh) |
| Coordinates | 36.3587, 43.1519 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:9] o 1o 1–o 99 | To the king, my lord: your servant Issar-nadin-apli, the foreman 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 [9:14] o 1010– | We kept watch on the 29th; we did not see the moon. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | Month of Marchesvan (VIII), 1st day, eponym year of Ahi-ila'i (649) |
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 {uru}arba-il₃ | |
| 5 | ⸢lu⸣-u DI-mu | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 7 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 8 | {d}15 ša {uru}arba-il₃ | |
| 9 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 10 | lik-ru-bu ina UD 29 | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ma-ṣar-⸢tu⸣ | |
| 2 | ni-ta-ṣa-ar | |
| 3 | {d}30 la ne₂-mur | |
| 4 | {iti}APIN UD 01-KAM₂ | |
| 5 | lim-mu {1}PAB—DINGIR-a.a | |
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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