ABL 0020 (P333972)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0020 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333972 |
| 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 [4:9] o 55–o 99 | Concerning the ritual about which I just wrote to the king, my lord, "They should go out and perform it tomorrow" — |
| Obverse [9:19] o 1010– | it had slipped my mind that tomorrow is the day of the city god. I was too hasty there; it is not good to g[o out] and perform it. We shall get together and perform it only on the 7th 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 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 dul-li | |
| 6 | ša is-su ha-ra-am-me | |
| 7 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ aš₂-pur-an-ni | |
| 8 | mu-uk a-na ši-a-ri | |
| 9 | lu-ṣu-ni le-pu-šu₂ | |
| 10 | TA@v ŠA₃-bi-ia e-te-li | |
| 11 | ki-i iš—ši-a-⸢ri⸣ iš—ši-a-⸢ri⸣ | |
| 12 | ⸢UD⸣-um DINGIR ⸢URU⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [šu]-tu-u-ni [o] | |
| 2 | [o ina] ŠA₃-bi al-tu-⸢sum⸣ | |
| 3 | la DUG₃.GA a-na u₂-[ṣe-e] | |
| 4 | a-na e-pa-[a-še] | |
| 5 | a-na UD 07-KAM₂\t-im-ma | |
| 6 | ni-kar-ri-ik ne₂-ep-pa-aš₂ | |
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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