ABL 0015 (P333967)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0015 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333967 |
| 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,' our lord: your [servants] Adad-šumu-uṣur and Marduk-šakin-šumi. Good health to our lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless our lord! |
| Obverse [5:9] o 66–o 99 | Concerning the girl about whom my lord said: "What time should she come in?" — |
| Obverse [9:19] o 1010– | since he is an 'early bird,' let the day (= the sun) rise for an hour and a half, thereupon she may enter. Soon after that my lord should have himself shaved. |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | The ritual is on the evening of the 11th 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 be-li₂-ni | |
| 2 | [ARAD-MEŠ]-ka {1}{d}IM—MU—PAB | |
| 3 | {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—GAR—MU | |
| 4 | lu-u DI-mu a-na be-li₂-ni | |
| 5 | {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na be-li₂-ni | |
| 6 | lik-ru-bu ina UGU {mi₂}GURUŠ.TUR | |
| 7 | ša be-li₂ iq-bu-ni | |
| 8 | ma-a mi-i-nu si-mu-nu | |
| 9 | lu te-ru-ba | |
| 10 | ne₂-me-il ha-ri-pa-a-ni | |
| 11 | [šu]-⸢tu⸣-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 2/3 KASKAL.GID₂ UD-mu | |
| 2 | li-iš-qi-a | |
| 3 | ha-ra-am-me-ma | |
| 4 | lu te-ru-ub | |
| 5 | ba-si id—da-a-ti id—da-a-ti | |
| 6 | be-li₂ {lu₂}ŠU.I-su | |
| 7 | le-pu-uš | |
| 8 | MI ša UD 11-KAM₂\t | |
| 9 | ina nu-bat-ti dul-lu | |
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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