ABL 0047 (P333999)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0047 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333999 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, [my lo]rd: your servant Akkull[anu]. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:11] o 77–o 1111 | Tomorrow evening there will be a (cultic) bath in the city of Tarbiṣu, and sacrifices of the king will be performed. Shall I go? |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | If I had n[ot] reminded (the king) [today], wouldn't the king, my lord, get furious and say: "Why did you not remind me?" |
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}ak-kul-⸢la⸣-[nu] | |
| 3 | lu-u šul-mu | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 5 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | ina ši-a-ri ša ba-a-di | |
| 8 | ri-in-ku ina {uru}tar-bi-ṣi | |
| 9 | u₃ {udu}SISKUR-MEŠ | |
| 10 | ša LUGAL in-ne₂-pa-ša₂ | |
| 11 | a-na-ku-u₂ al-lak | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ki-ma ina [UD-me an-ni-i] | |
| 2 | ⸢la⸣ u₂-šah-sis | |
| 3 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ | |
| 4 | la i-ra-u₂-bu | |
| 5 | ma-a a-ta-a | |
| 6 | la tu-šah-sis-a-ni | |
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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