ABL 0052 (P334004)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0052 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334004 |
| 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 [5:22] o 66– | Concerning the purification which I was ordered (to perform), I have gone and undertaken an effective one. From Nineveh I took the road to Zikkû and went as far as to Sasiqani; (there) I gave the (following) order to the courier who had accompanied me from Nineveh and to the courier of the city of Calah: "You carry along (this torch and this censer and) move them about in the city of Kasappa." |
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 be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}PA—SUM—MU | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ina UGU tak-pi-ir-ti | |
| 7 | ša ṭe₃-e-mu šak-na-ku-ni | |
| 8 | at-ta-lak tak-pi-ir-tu | |
| 9 | da-at-⸢tu u₂⸣-sa-aṣ-bit | |
| 10 | TA@v {uru}ni-nu-a | |
| 11 | hu-lu ša {uru}zi-ik-⸢ku⸣-u | |
| 12 | uk-te-le | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-du {uru}sa-si-qa-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 2 | at-ta-lak ṭe₃-e-mu | |
| 3 | a-na {lu₂}da-a.a-li | |
| 4 | ša TA@v {uru}NINA{ki} | |
| 5 | is-se-ia u₂-ṣa-an-ni | |
| 6 | u₃ a-na {lu₂}da-a.a-li | |
| 7 | ša {uru}kal-ha a-sa-kan-šu₂-nu | |
| 8 | mu-uk tu-ba-la | |
| 9 | ina ŠA₃-bi {uru}ka-sap-pa | |
| 10 | tu-ša-ba-a | |
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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