ABL 0003 (P333955)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | ABL 0003 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333955 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | 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 [4:10] o 55–o 1010 | Concerning the drug about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, what the king, my lord, said is quite right. |
| Obverse [10:23] o 1111– | Let us make those slaves drink first, and let the crown prince drink only afterwards. What am I to speak, an old man who has got no sense. (By contrast) what the king, my lord, said is as perfect as (the word) of the god. |
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 DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU ana LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu ina UGU-hi | |
| 6 | šam-mu ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 7 | iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 8 | SIG₅-iq a—dan-niš | |
| 9 | be₂-et LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 10 | iq-bu-u₂-ni | |
| 11 | {lu₂v}GAL₃-MEŠ am-mu-te | |
| 12 | ni-har-ru-up | |
| 13 | ni-ša₂-aq-qi | |
| b.e. | ||
| 14 | ha-ra-me-ma | |
| 15 | DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL | |
| r | ||
| 1 | li-is-si | |
| 2 | a-na-ku-ma mi-i-nu | |
| 3 | a-qab-bi {lu₂v}par-šu-mu | |
| 4 | ša ṭe₃-en-šu | |
| 5 | la-aš₂-šu-u-ni | |
| 6 | ša LUGAL EN iq-bu-u-ni | |
| 7 | ki-i ša DINGIR gam-rat | |
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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-11.