ABL 0038 (P333990)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0038 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333990 |
| 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 'farmer,' my lord: your servant Issar-šumu-ereš. Good health to the 'farmer,' my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the 'farmer,' my lord! |
| Obverse [5:9] o 66–o 99 | Concerning the wa[tc]h (for the lunar eclipse) about which the ['farmer'], my [lord], wrot[e to m]e: "[...] |
| Reverse [0:8] r 1'1'–r 8'8' | "If it should occ[ur], what is the word about it?" — the 14th day (signifies) the Eastland, the month Sivan (III) (signifies) the Westland, and the relevant 'decision' (pertains) to Ur. And if it occurs, the (interpretation concerning the) region it afflicts and the wind blowing will be quoted as well. |
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 {lu₂}ENGAR EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}15—MU—KAM-eš | |
| 3 | lu šul-mu a-na {lu₂}ENGAR EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na {lu₂}ENGAR EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ina UGU ⸢ma⸣-[ṣar]-ti | |
| 7 | ša {lu₂}[ENGAR be]-⸢li⸣ | |
| 8 | iš-⸢pur⸣-[an-ni] | |
| 9 | ⸢ma-a⸣ [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ma-a šum-ma i-⸢ša₂⸣-[kan] | |
| 2' | mi-i-nu a-bat-su | |
| 3' | UD 14-KAM {kur}NIM.MA{ki} | |
| 4' | {iti}SIG₄ {kur}MAR.TU{ki} | |
| 5' | EŠ.BAR-šu₂ a-na ŠEŠ.UNUG{ki} | |
| 6' | u₃ šum-ma is-sa-kan | |
| 7' | kaq-qu-ru E₂ u₂-la-pat-an-ni | |
| 8' | u₃ ša₂-a-ri a-li-ku | |
| 9' | is-se-niš i-na-sa-ha | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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