ABL 0004 (P333956)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0004 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333956 |
| 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 'farmer,' my lord: your servant Adad-šumu-uṣur. Good health to the 'farmer,' my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the 'farmer,' my [lord]! |
| Obverse [5:8] o 66–o 88 | On the 13th of [Tam]muz (IV), tomorrow, [the 'far]mer' goes to the qirsu, [ent]ers the reed hut, sits down, (then) [ret]urns [from] the qirsu and goes [...]. A barber enters. The nails [which] he cuts are put into a bottle (which) is sealed and brought [to] the border of the enemy country. |
| Obverse [8:26] o 99– | Alternatively, they go and do it in the same way on the 15th day. |
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 {lu₂}ENGAR EN-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}IM—MU—PAB | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na {lu₂}ENGAR EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU a-na {lu₂}ENGAR | |
| 5 | [EN]-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | {[iti]}⸢ŠU⸣ UD 13-KAM₂\t iš—ši-a-ri iš—ši-a-ri | |
| 7 | {[lu₂]}⸢ENGAR⸣ a-na qi₂-ir-⸢si⸣ | |
| 8 | [il]-⸢lak⸣ ina ŠA₃ ki-ik-ki-si | |
| 9 | [e-ra]-ab uš-šab | |
| 10 | [TA@v qi₂]-ir-si | |
| 11 | [i]-⸢sa⸣-hu-ra | |
| 12 | [x]+⸢x⸣ il-la-ka | |
| 13 | {[lu₂]}ŠU.I | |
| 14 | [o] ⸢e⸣-ra-ab | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢ṣu⸣-up-ri | |
| 2 | [ša₂] ⸢i⸣-ka-sa-pu-u-ni | |
| 3 | [ina] {⸢dug⸣}la-ha-ni | |
| 4 | [i]-šak-ku-nu | |
| 5 | [i]-ka-nu-ku | |
| 6 | [ina] ⸢mi⸣-iṣ-ri | |
| 7 | {[kur]}nu-kur₂-ti | |
| 8 | ⸢ub⸣-bu-lu | |
| 9 | u₂-la-a UD 15-KAM₂\t | |
| 10 | il-lu-ku | |
| 11 | a-ki an-ni-im-ma | |
| 12 | e-pu-šu | |
Sources & licences
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- 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)
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