ABL 0019 (P333971)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0019 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333971 |
| 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 Marduk-šakin-šumi. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:7] o 55–o 77 | Concerning the application of the ṣillibānu-treatment about which the king, my lord, said: "It is very hot" — |
| Obverse [7:18] o 88– | it must be hot; why (else) are we doing this? Did he not (intend) heat, (when) he said "It should make him sweat?" But why is he seized by ague, through it is early summer? This does not make any sense. It is work of the gods. |
| Reverse [2:13] r 33–r 1313 | And concerning the string of (amulet) stones — what the king, my lord, said is quite correct. Did I not tell the king, my lord, (already) in the enemy country that they are unsuited to Assyria? Now we shall stick to the methods transmitted to the king, my lord, by the gods (themselves). |
| Reverse [14:15] r 1515–r 1515 | I am now writing to the king, my lord. |
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}AMAR.UTU—GAR—MU | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu ina UGU ka-ra-ri | |
| 6 | ša ṣil-li-ba-a-ni ša LUGAL | |
| 7 | be-li₂ iq-bu-u-ni ma-a ṣa-ri-ih | |
| 8 | a—dan-niš lu ṣa-ri-ih | |
| 9 | a-ni-in-nu-ma ba-si mi₃-i-ni | |
| 10 | ne₂-ep-pa-aš₂ la-a šu-tu₂ | |
| 11 | ṣu-ur-he-e ma-a zu-u₂-tu₂ | |
| 12 | ina ŠA₃-bi li-ik-ru-ra | |
| 13 | ku-ṣu-um-ma a-ta-a | |
| 14 | i-ṣa-bat-su la har-pi-i | |
| 15 | šu-nu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | an-ni-i la mit-hur šu-u | |
| 2 | šu-u₂ DINGIR-MEŠ-ni e-pu-šu₂ | |
| 3 | u₃ ina UGU ṭur-ri | |
| 4 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ iq-bu-ni | |
| 5 | de-ʾi-iq a—dan-niš | |
| 6 | la-a ina KUR—na-ki-re-e KUR—na-ki-re-e | |
| 7 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia aq-bi | |
| 8 | mu-uk la si-ma-a-ti | |
| 9 | ša KUR—aš-šur{ki} ši-na | |
| 10 | u₂-ma-a ina pu-ut GIŠ.HUR-MEŠ | |
| 11 | ša DINGIR-MEŠ a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 12 | id-di-nu-ni ki-i ha-an-ni-i | |
| 13 | nu-ka-a-la | |
| 14 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ e-ta-ka-a-ni | |
| 15 | [a-na] LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 16 | ⸢as⸣-sap-ra | |
Sources & licences
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