ABL 0001 (P333953)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0001 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333953 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, my lord: your servant Adad-šumu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:9] o 66–o 99 | Concerning the two (patients) in the new palace and concerning Sin-per'u-ukin about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Go and see them" — |
| Obverse [9:17] o 1010– | now, the king knows that a eunuch took me to the house of Danî, and I performed a ritual for the benefit of his son. His affliction is severe, he is very ill. |
| Reverse [0:8] r 1r 1–r 88 | Because I have been taking care of him, it is not good to go today. I shall go tomorrow, see them and report their health to the king. I will appoint exorcists to treat them. |
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 be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}IM—MU—PAB | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ina UGU 02 ša ina E₂—GIBIL E₂—GIBIL | |
| 7 | u₃ ina UGU {1}{d}30—NUNUZ—GIN-in | |
| 8 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 9 | ma-a a-lik a-mur-šu₂-nu | |
| 10 | u₂-ma-a LUGAL be-li₂ u₂-da | |
| 11 | {lu₂}SAG it-tu-bi-la-an-ni | |
| 12 | a-na E₂ {1}da-ni-i | |
| 13 | i-na UGU ma-ar-i-šu₂ | |
| 14 | dul-lu e-ta-pa-aš₂ | |
| 15 | li-ip-tu-šu₂ da-an | |
| 16 | ma-ri-iṣ a—dan-niš | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ne₂-me-el ina re-šu-uš-šu₂ | |
| 2 | az-zi-zu-u-ni | |
| 3 | UD-mu an-ni-u₂ la ṭa-ba | |
| 4 | a-na a-la-ki | |
| 5 | ina ši-ʾa-a-ri al-lak | |
| 6 | a-mar-šu₂-nu DI-mu-šu₂-nu | |
| 7 | a-na LUGAL a-qab-bi | |
| 8 | {lu₂}MAŠ.MAŠ-MEŠ u₂-pa-qa₂-da | |
| 9 | dul-la-šu₂-nu e-pu-šu | |
Sources & licences
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