ABL 0021 (P333973)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0021 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333973 |
| 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 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 [5:15] o 66– | May we bring these skulls prescribed in the ritual into the qirsu, clothe them with garments and install them there? Let them write me what the king, my lord, commands. |
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-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}ŠU₂—GAR—MU | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | be-li₂-ia {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 6 | lik-ru-bu gul-gul-la-te | |
| 7 | ši-na ša₂ ina ŠA₃-bi dul-li | |
| 8 | qa-bu-u-ni | |
| 9 | nu-še-ri-ba-a | |
| 10 | ina qir-si | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ku-zip-pi nu-ša₂-URU-bi-iš | |
| 2 | ina ŠA₃-bi ni-iš-kun | |
| 3 | mi-i-nu ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 4 | be-li₂ i-qab-bu-u-ni | |
| 5 | liš-pur-u-ni | |
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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