Sumerian·Book

Position in chronology

~760 BCE
Ubaid
5500
Uruk
4000
ED
2900
Akkad
2334
Ur III
2112
Old Bab.
2000
Old Assyrian
2000
Mid. Bab.
1600
Middle Assyrian
1400
Neo-Assyr.
911
Neo-Bab.
626
Achaemenid
539

OrNS 36, 273-278 25d & pl. 58

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P240175

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Empire, library, terror, scholarship.

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P240177 · ~710 BCE
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P240182 · ~710 BCE
SAA 17 055. Report on Merodach-Baladan (CT 54 442)
“(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Bel-i]bni. [I would gladly] die for [the king, my lord]! May [Na]bû an…”
P240184 · ~710 BCE
SAA 17 160. The Throne of Bel (ABL 1182)
“(1) Your servant Nabû-[...: I would gladly] die for the king, my (lit. "his") lor[d! Say to] the king, my lord…”

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — OrNS 36, 273-278 25d & pl. 58. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P240175) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P240175..

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