ABL 0076 (P334025)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0076 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334025 |
| 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 lord: your servant Balasî. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:23] o 77– | Concerning the ... about which the king, my lord, wrote to me — the dream rituals should be performed on the 13th day, in the morning. On the 13th day the [moon] will be cover[ed] with the crown of splendour. Afterw[ards], [...] on the 14th day, [the moon] will be seen in opposition to the sun, a good oracular utterance will answer you. |
| Reverse [5:12] r 66–r 1212 | May Aššur, Bel, Nabû and Šamaš bless the king, my lord! May they give life of distant days, old age and fullness of life to the king, my lord! |
| Reverse [12:13] r 1313–r 1313 | The 13th is a propitious day; let them perform it. |
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}ba-la-si-i | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | EN-ia {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 6 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | ina UGU ge-⸢en-ti⸣ | |
| 8 | ša LUGAL be-[li₂] iš-[pur-an]-ni | |
| 9 | UD 13-KAM₂\t ina ⸢ša⸣—še-ra-a-⸢ti⸣ | |
| 10 | mu-šu-ta-⸢ti⸣ | |
| 11 | le-pu-⸢šu⸣ | |
| 12 | UD 13-KAM₂\t {d}30 | |
| 13 | a-ge-e | |
| 14 | ta-aš₂-ri-ih-⸢ti⸣ | |
| 15 | a-pi-[ir] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16 | ha-⸢ra⸣-[ma-ma] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 2 | UD 14-KAM~v {[d}30 | |
| 3 | it-ti {d}UTU ⸢in⸣-[na-mar] | |
| 4 | gi-ir-ru-u SIG₅ | |
| 5 | ep-pal-ka | |
| 6 | aš-šur {d}EN {d}PA | |
| 7 | {d}UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 8 | EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 9 | TI.LA UD-MEŠ SUD-MEŠ | |
| 10 | ši-bu-u-tu₂ lit-tu-tu₂ | |
| 11 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 12 | lid-di-nu | |
| 13 | UD 13-KAM~v DUG₃.GA | |
| 14 | le-pu-šu | |
Sources & licences
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