ABL 0008 (P333960)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0008 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333960 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | 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 [6:7] o 77–o 77 | [Bronc]hitis; |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | the enuru-incantation "Day of the Watc[h]" |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | physiognomic omens; |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | [...] "Day of the Wa[tch]"; |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | (medical work) "Cough with Phlegm"; the Holy Cow; |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | [š]utamṭû ... |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313 | The ... of the god [...]. |
| Obverse [13:15] o 1414– | is meant by it. |
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 | |
| 4 | [be]-⸢li₂⸣-ia {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | [a-na] LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 6 | [lik]-ru-bu | |
| 7 | [EN₂ ki]-⸢is⸣—ŠA₃-bi | |
| 8 | [EN₂] ⸢E₂⸣.NU.RU UD EN.⸢NUN⸣ | |
| 9 | [NIG₂].DIM₂.DIM₂.MA-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 10 | [x] ni šu UD EN.[NUN] | |
| 11 | [su]-⸢ʾa⸣-lu AB₂ ⸢KUG⸣.[GA] | |
| 12 | ⸢šu⸣-tam-ṭu-u ⸢KUG⸣.[GI] | |
| 13 | [x]+⸢x⸣ is-su ša {d}[x] | |
| 14 | ina ŠA₃-bi qa-[bi] | |
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)
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