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ABL 0011 (P333963)

Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationABL 0011
IDP333963
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreLetter
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

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Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55To the king, our lord: your servants Adad-šumu-uṣur and Marduk-šakin-šumi. Good health to the king, our lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, our lord!
Obverse [5:19] o 66–Concerning what the king wrote to us, [he has a]ssigned it as follows: "Once he is through with the [Sum]erian counterspells, he should thereafter finish the antiphone (series). Thereafter the others should do likewise."

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
o
1a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ni
2ARAD-MEŠ-ka {1}{d}IM—MU—PAB
3{1}{d}AMAR.UTU—GAR—MU
4lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ni
5{d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ni
6lik-ru-bu ina UGU ša LUGAL
7iš-pur-an-na-ši-ni
8ki-i an-ni-i
9[u₂]-⸢ta⸣-as-si-ik
10[ma-a] ⸢E₂⸣ UŠ₁₁.BUR₂.RU.DA-ni
11[EME].GI₇-ti
12[o] ⸢e⸣-pu-šu₂-ni
r
1ma-a ša me₂-eh-ri
2id—da-a-ti id—da-a-ti
3lu-ga-mir
4le-pu-uš
5ma-a id—da-a-ti id—da-a-ti
6am-mu-ti ki-i an-nim-ma
7le-pu-šu₂

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