ABL 0053 (P334005)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0053 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334005 |
| 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 greatly bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:8] o 66–o 88 | Concerning what the king, my lord, said to me: "Discuss it with Balasî", I did so and he said: |
| Obverse [8:12] o 99–o 1212 | "He should sit down on the 15th and get up on the 22nd; on the 24th day the king should go down to the river and perform his ritual." |
| Obverse [12:24] o 1313– | He also said: "Let us talk (about this) to the king (himself), and let the king hear what we have to say." He and I should (now) have an audience with the king; we shall instruct the king, our lord, how the ritual will be performed. It is a complicated one, and it is essential that the king listens to what we have to say. |
| Reverse [8:12] r 99–r 1212 | Concerning the izbu (= anomalous birth) ritual about which the king wrote to me: "It is obscure" — I sent the king exactly what is written on the tablet. |
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}AG—na-din—MU | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL be-li₂-[ia] | |
| 5 | a—dan-niš lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ina UGU ša LUGAL be-li₂ iq-ban-ni | |
| 7 | ma-a TA {1}ba-<la>-si-i du-ub-bu | |
| 8 | ad-du-bu-ub iq-ṭi-bi | |
| 9 | ma-a UD 15-KAM₂\t lu-ši-ib | |
| 10 | ma-a UD 22-KAM₂\t li-it-bi | |
| 11 | ma-a UD 24-KAM₂\t LUGAL ina UGU ID₂ | |
| 12 | ⸢lu-ri-id⸣ dul-lu-šu₂ le-pu-uš | |
| 13 | u₃ iq-ṭi-bi ma-a | |
| 14 | ina pa-an LUGAL ni-id-bu-ub | |
| 15 | LUGAL ša pi-i-ni liš-me | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-na-ku šu-u₂ | |
| 2 | ina pa-an LUGAL ne₂-ru-ba | |
| 3 | ⸢dul-lu ki⸣-i ša in-ne₂-pa-šu-u-ni | |
| 4 | ⸢a⸣-[na LUGAL] ⸢be⸣-li₂-i-ni | |
| 5 | nu-[ša₂]-ah-ki-im | |
| 6 | dul-⸢lu ma⸣-ah-du šu-u₂ | |
| 7 | ⸢de-iq⸣ a-ki-i LUGAL | |
| 8 | ša pi-i-ni i-ša₂-mu-u-ni | |
| 9 | ina UGU-hi ša iz-bi ša LUGAL | |
| 10 | iš-pur-an-ni ma-a sa-me | |
| 11 | a-ki-i ša ina {giš}le-ʾi | |
| 12 | ša-ṭir-u₂-ni a-na LUGAL | |
| 13 | be-li₂-ia as-sap-ra | |
Sources & licences
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