ABL 0051 (P334003)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0051 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334003 |
| 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 Nabû-nadin-šumi. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:11] o 66–o 1111 | Concerning the apotropaic ritual against evil of any kind, about which the king wrote to me: "Perform it tomorrow" — the day is not propitious. We shall prepare it on the 25th and perform it on the 26th. |
| Obverse [11:20] o 1212– | Anyway, the king, my lord, should not be worried about this portent. Bel and Nabû can make a portent pass by, and they will make it bypass the king, my lord. The king, my lord, should not be afraid. |
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}{d}PA—SUM—MU | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ina UGU NAM.BUR₂.BI HUL DU₃.A.BI | |
| 7 | <ša> LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 8 | ma-a a-na ši-ia-a-ri | |
| 9 | e-pu-uš UD-mu la DUG₃.GA | |
| 10 | UD 25-KAM₂ nu-ša₂-aṣ-bat | |
| 11 | UD 26-KAM₂ ne₂-pa-aš₂ | |
| 12 | u₃ ina UGU it-ti | |
| 13 | an-ni-ti LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [TA@v ŠA₃]-⸢bi⸣-šu₂ | |
| 2 | lu ⸢la⸣ id-da-ab-bu-ub | |
| 3 | {d}EN u₃ {d}PA am—mar | |
| 4 | GISKIM še-tu-uq-qi | |
| 5 | ma-ṣu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 6 | u₂-še-tu-uq-qu | |
| 7 | LUGAL be-li₂ lu la i-pa-lah₃ | |
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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