ABL 0022 (P333974)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0022 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333974 |
| 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 [4:10] o 55–o 1010 | Concerning the prophylactic figurines about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, "Where will they be buried?" — it is said in the (ritual) tablet as follows: "You bury them at the outer gate." Now, with the king's permission, [......] |
| Obverse [10:19] o 1111– | (11) (Break) |
| Reverse [1:12] r 22–r 1212 | Also tomorrow, after the king has gone out, they should bury them in front of the main room and the bedrooms, in places to be additionally specified by the king. Daytime or nighttime makes no difference; one may bury whenever one likes. |
| Reverse [12:14] r 1313–r 1414 | I, for my part, will bury (figurines) in the said way here. |
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 EN-ia₂ | |
| 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 tim-ra-a-ni | |
| 6 | ⸢ša LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 7 | ma-[a a].a-ka i-tam-me-ru | |
| 8 | ina ṭup-pi ⸢ki⸣-i an-ni-i qa-bi | |
| 9 | ma-a ⸢ina KA₂.DIL⸣.AM₃ KA₂.DIL⸣.AM₃ te-te-⸢mir⸣ | |
| 10 | ⸢u₂⸣-ma-a šum-[mu] LUGAL i-qab-bi | |
| 11 | [x x] ⸢x x x x x⸣ | |
| 12 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 13 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 14 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 15 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 16 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x]-ru | |
| 2 | ⸢u₃⸣ ina o ⸢ši⸣-a-ri | |
| 3 | [ki]-ma LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 4 | [a]-na qa-an-ni it-tu-ṣi | |
| 5 | ina IGI E₂ dan-ni | |
| 6 | ina IGI E₂—KI.NA₂-MEŠ E₂—KI.NA₂-MEŠ | |
| 7 | E₂ LUGAL is-se-niš | |
| 8 | u₂-sah-ka-mu-ni | |
| 9 | lit-me-ru ša kal—UD-me kal—UD-me | |
| 10 | ša MI la pa-ris | |
| 11 | im—ma-ti im—ma-ti ša ŠA₃-ba-šu₂-u-ni | |
| 12 | i-tam-me-er | |
| 13 | ki-i an-ni-i | |
| 14 | ana-ku an-na-ka | |
| 15 | ⸢lu⸣-tam-me-er | |
Sources & licences
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