ABL 0025 (P333977)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0025 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333977 |
| 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 b[less] the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:19] o 66– | Concerning the counterspells which we earlier [had to interrupt] and did not finish performing, we could now, with the king my lord's permission, con[tinue with them]. Because of the temperature, [the ritual] was not comp[leted ...] upon the [clothes] of the l[ater] people who [......]. |
| Reverse [2:7] r 33–r 77 | At the same time we could also perform th[ose] rites of the series Šur[pu] about which I said to the king, [my] lord: "We should perform them for [...]." |
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}AG u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ lik-[ru-bu] | |
| 6 | ina UGU UŠ₁₁.BUR₂.⸢RU⸣.[DA]-⸢a⸣-ni | |
| 7 | ša ina pa-ni-ti ni-[ib-ṭil-u-ni] | |
| 8 | la nu-gam-me-[ru-u-ni] | |
| 9 | la ne₂-pu-⸢šu⸣-[u-ni] | |
| 10 | u₂-ma-a šum-mu [LUGAL be-li₂] | |
| 11 | i-qab-bi re-⸢e⸣-[šu₂ ni-iš-ši] | |
| 12 | TA@v IGI ṣur-hi ina ⸢UGU⸣ [ku-zip-pi] | |
| 13 | ša UN-MEŠ ⸢ur⸣-[ki-u₂-ti] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 14 | ša ⸢ŠA₃⸣ [x x x] | |
| 15 | a-⸢na⸣ [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | an-ni-[i x x x] | |
| 2 | la ug-da-⸢dam⸣-[mir] | |
| 3 | u₃ ne₂-pe-še am-[mu-ti] | |
| 4 | ša EŠ₂.QAR šu-ur-[pu] | |
| 5 | ša a-na LUGAL be-li₂-[ia] | |
| 6 | aq-bu-ni mu-uk a-na [x x] | |
| 7 | ne₂-pu-uš is-se-[niš] | |
| 8 | ne₂-pu-uš | |
Sources & licences
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