ABL 0034 (P333986)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0034 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333986 |
| 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 Issar-šumu-ereš. Good health to the king, [my lo]rd! [May] Nabû and Marduk [bless] the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:10] o 55–o 1010 | As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "What apotropaic ritual is there?" — there is the apotropaic ritual against earthquake, and it should be performed; [...] should enter the Review Palace. The following (is) [what] is said abo[ut the matter] in the tablet: |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | [If ......, ...] will stay ... |
| Obverse [11:13] o 1212–o 1313 | [If ......], in that year the prince [......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [... ever]ybody has now [...] |
| Reverse [2:4] r 3'3'–r 4'4' | [...]ed, picked up [...], and ...... |
| Reverse [4:6] r 5'5'–r 6'6' | The king, my lord, should not be worried about it. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | Now it has again quaked in the daytime: |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | If the earth trembles in the daytime, dispersal of the land. |
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}15—MU—[KAM-eš] | |
| 3 | lu šul-mu a-na LUGAL ⸢EN-ia⸣ | |
| 4 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ia [lik]-ru-[bu] | |
| 5 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 6 | ma-a ⸢mi⸣-nu i-ba-aš₂-ši ⸢NAM⸣.BUR₂.⸢BI⸣ | |
| 7 | NAM.⸢BUR₂.BI⸣ HUL ri-⸢i-bi⸣ ba-⸢ši⸣ | |
| 8 | le-⸢e⸣-[pu]-šu₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x] a-na E₂.GAL—ma-šar-⸢te⸣ E₂.GAL—ma-šar-⸢te⸣ | |
| 9 | le-ru-⸢ub⸣ ina ṭup-pi an-ni-tu₂ | |
| 10 | [ši-i ša ina] ⸢UGU⸣ qa-bu-u-ni | |
| 11 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ x x u₂-šab | |
| 12 | [x x x x x x] NUN ⸢MU⸣ BI | |
| 13 | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ u | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x]-e i-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x ia]-⸢mu⸣-ut-tu a-kan-ni [x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x]-⸢e⸣-ma is-su-⸢qu⸣-[ut x x] | |
| 4' | [x x] ne₂-me-šu₂ it-te-⸢miš⸣ [x x] | |
| 5' | LUGAL be-li TA@v ŠA₃-bi-šu₂ ina UGU-hi | |
| 6' | la i-da-bu-ub | |
| 7' | u₂-ma-a ina kal UD-me ir-tu-bu-u-ma | |
| 8' | 1 KI ina kal UD-me i-nu-uš ⸢BIR-ah⸣ KUR | |
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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