ABL 0308 (P334196)

Letter tablet excavated in Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik), dated to the Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

Cite

Photo (detail)

Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM —

Period

Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)

Provenience

Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)

Artifact Type

Tablet

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Letter

Language(s)

Akkadian

Measurements

Text content

Genre(s)	Letter
Language(s)	Akkadian

Chronology

Period	Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)
Dates Referenced
Accounting Period

Record

CDLI number	P334196
LOD URI	https://cdli.network/entity/P334196

Physical information

Artifact type	Tablet
Dimensions
Weight
Material(s)	Clay
Preservation

Provenance

Provenience	Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Written In
Archive
Excavation Number
Findspot
Stratigraphic Level
Elevation

Collections

Collection(s)	British Museum, London, UK
Museum Number	BM —
Accession Number	K 01619b

External resources

External Resource	Identifiers
Electronic Babylonian Library (eBL)	K.1619.B
The Political Correspondence of Esarhaddon (SAAo/SAA16)	P334196
Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP)	P334196
Ashurbanipal Library Project (AsbP)	P334196
State Archives of Assyria Online (SAAo)	P334196
British Museum Collection (BM)	W_K-1619-b

References

primary: ABL, 0308

[Harper1892-1914ABL] Harper, Robert Francis. 1892-1914. Assyrian and Babylonian Letters Belonging to the Kouyunjik Collections of the British Museum. University of Chicago Press.
history: SAA 16, 28

[Luukko2002SAA16] Luukko, Mikko, and Greta Van Buylaere. 2002. The Political Correspondence of Esarhaddon. State Archives of Assyria, Volume 16. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press.
history: LFM, 158 no. 97

[Oppenheim1967LFM] Oppenheim, A. Leo. 1967. Letters from Mesopotamia: Official Business, and Private Letters on Clay Tablets from Two Millennia. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
citation: ZA 97 (pp. 98–118), 103

[Livingstone2007ZA97] Livingstone, Alasdair. 2007. “Ashurbanipal: Literate or Not?” Zeitschrift Für Assyriologie 97: 98–118.

Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2026-06-09 at 10:38:09	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-09-10 at 21:32:33	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-08-07 at 13:44:40	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-07-05 at 18:46:41	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-06-15 at 20:22:28	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-06-01 at 19:57:55	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Novotny, Jamie		Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-01-21 at 07:05:30	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2006-09-13 at 00:00:00	CDLI, CDLI	Artifact metadata	Tinney, Stephen J.		CDLI, CDLI	Approved

Cite this Artifact

“ABL 0308 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2026. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 9, 2026. https://cdli.earth/P334196.

ABL 0308 artifact entry (No. P334196). (2026, June 9). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P334196 (Original work published 2006)

ABL 0308 artifact entry (2026) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P334196 (Accessed: October 14, 2026).

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Cite this Artifact

“ABL 0308 Artifact Entry.” (2006) 2026. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). June 9, 2026. https://cdli.earth/P334196.

ABL 0308 artifact entry (No. P334196). (2026, June 9). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P334196 (Original work published 2006)

ABL 0308 artifact entry (2026) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P334196 (Accessed: October 14, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-14]},
	year = {2026},
	month = {jun 9},
	title = {ABL 0308 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P334196},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P334196},
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