ABL 0108 (P334057)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0108 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334057 |
| 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 Urad-Nanaya. The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Ninurta [and] Gula give happiness and physical [well-bein]g to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:15] o 77– | The crown prince is doing very well. The treatment which we carried out and gave to the chest lasted for 1 1/2 hours; he retained consciousness and afterwards sat up (in his bed). How proper he is! |
| Reverse [0:6] r 1r 1–r 66 | Concerning the patient whose nose bleeds, the rab mūgi told me that much blood flowed yesterday evening. |
| Reverse [6:19] r 77– | They are handling those tampons ignorantly! They put them against the cartilage of the nose, pressing the cartilage, and that is why the blood keeps coming out. They should put them into the openings of the nostrils; it will cut off the breath but the blood will be held back. |
| Edge [0:2] e. 1e. 1–e. 22 | With the king's consent, I will enter (the palace) tomorrow and give instructions. Now let me to hear about the (king's) health. |
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}ARAD—{d}na-na-a | |
| 3 | lu šul-mu ad—dan-niš ad—dan-niš | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia {d}MAŠ | |
| 5 | [u] {d}gu-la DUG₃-ub lib-bi | |
| 6 | [DUG₃]-⸢ub⸣ UZU-MEŠ a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 7 | lid-di-nu šul-mu ad—dan-niš | |
| 8 | a-na DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL dul-lu | |
| 9 | ša a-na GABA ne₂-pu-šu-u-ni | |
| 10 | ni-din-u-ni 5/6 KASKAL.GID₂ UD-mu | |
| 11 | it-ta-lak ih-ti-ri-di | |
| 12 | uk-ti-il i—da-te i—da-te | |
| 13 | it-tu-šib a-ke-e | |
| 14 | ta-ri-⸢iṣ⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina UGU mar-ṣi | |
| 2 | ša MUD₂-MEŠ ša ap-pi-šu₂ | |
| 3 | il-lak-u-ni {lu₂}GAL—mu-gi {lu₂}GAL—mu-gi | |
| 4 | iq-ṭi-bi-ia ma-a | |
| 5 | ina ti-ma-li ki-i ba-di | |
| 6 | MUD₂-MEŠ ma-aʾ-du | |
| 7 | it-tal-ku li-ip-pi | |
| 8 | am-mu-te ina la mu-da-nu-te | |
| 9 | i-na-ši-u ina UGU | |
| 10 | na-ah-na-he-e-te ša ap-pi | |
| 11 | u₂-mu-du na-ah-na-hu-tu₂ | |
| 12 | u₂-da-u₂-pu TA@v pa-ni | |
| 13 | MUD₂-MEŠ u₂-ṣu-u-ni | |
| 14 | pi-i na-hi-ri | |
| r.e. | ||
| 15 | liš-ku-nu ša₂-a-ru | |
| 16 | i-ka-si-ir | |
| 17 | MUD₂-MEŠ ik-ka-li-u | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | šum₂-ma pa-an LUGAL ma-hi-ir a-na ši-a-ri | |
| 2 | le-ru-ub lu-sah-ki-im u₂-ma-a šul-mu | |
| 3 | la-aš₂-me | |
Sources & licences
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