ABL 0029 (P333981)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0029 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333981 |
| 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 [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | [To the king, m]y [lord: your servant Ur]ad-Ea. [Good health] to the king, my [lord]! [May Nabû], Marduk, [Sin and] Nikkal [ble]ss [the king], my lord! |
| Obverse [8:21] o 99– | [The gods] of Kurba'il set off (for the akītu-temple) under my [directi]on, and the garments of the king go (along). Year after year they go on like this; the penitential psalm is performed over them, (and the gods) bless the king, my lord. |
| Reverse [6:8] r 77–r 88 | Let the king, my lord, (now) order that they give [the garments]. |
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]-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}⸢ARAD⸣—E₂.A | |
| 3 | [lu-u DI-mu] a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | [be-li₂]-ia | |
| 5 | {[d}AG u] {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | {[d}30 u] {d}⸢NIN⸣.GAL | |
| 7 | [a-na LUGAL] ⸢EN-ia⸣ | |
| 8 | [lik-ru]-bu | |
| 9 | [DINGIR-MEŠ] {uru}kur-ba-il₃ | |
| 10 | [ina pa-na]-⸢tu⸣-u₂-a | |
| 11 | [i]-⸢ta⸣-ab-bi-u₂ | |
| 12 | ⸢ku⸣-zip-⸢pi⸣ ša LUGAL | |
| 13 | il-lu-ku | |
| 14 | ⸢ša₂⸣-at-tum <ana> ša₂-at-ti | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ki-i an-ni-i | |
| 2 | il-lu-[ku] | |
| 3 | ER₂.ŠA₃.HUN.GA₂ | |
| 4 | ina UGU-hi in-ne₂-ep-pa-aš₂ | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 6 | i-kar-ru-bu | |
| 7 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ | |
| 8 | ⸢ṭe₃⸣-e-mu liš-kun | |
| 9 | [ku-zip-pi] li-di-nu | |
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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