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1883-01-18, 0082 unpublished unassigned ? (P452777)

Administrative Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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Designation1883-01-18, 0082 unpublished unassigned ?
IDP452777
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreAdministrative Letter
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa21 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22[A tablet of Assurbanipal, king of] Assyria, [to Sarduri, king of] Urarṭu, his son.
Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44M[y palace] and the whole of Assyria [are well; may] your palace and your country [be well].
Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55[... e]ver since God
Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66[......] which he gave to you
Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77[......] you (have) sought my goodness
Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88[......] listen to you
Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99[......] rejoiced [...]
Obverse [9:13] o 1010–o 1313[......] friend [...]

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
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1[IM {1}AN.ŠAR₂—DU₃—A LUGAL] ⸢KUR⸣—AN.ŠAR₂{ki}
2[a-na {1}{d}15—du-ri LUGAL {kur]}URI DUMU-šu₂
3[DI-mu a-na E₂].⸢GAL-ia⸣ u₃ KUR—aš-šur{ki} gab-bu
4[lu-u DI-mu a-na] E₂.GAL-ka u KUR-ka
5[x x x x] ⸢TA⸣ be₂-et DINGIR
6[x x x x] ša₂ id-din-ak-kan-ni
7[x x x] ⸢x⸣ MUN tu-ba-ʾu-u-ni
8[x x x u₂]-⸢ša₂⸣-mu-ka-a-ni
9[x x x] ⸢x⸣ ah-du-⸢u₂⸣
10[x x x x] u₃ EN—MUN EN—MUN [x x x]
11[x x x x] ni-il-[x x x x]
12[x x x x]-an-ni ⸢as⸣-[x x x x]
13[x x x x] a-⸢si-x⸣+[x x x x]

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