ABL 0248 (P334183)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0248 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334183 |
| 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 [0:10] o 1o 1–o 1010 | To the king, my lord: your servant Ikkaru. The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! May Ninurta and Gula give happiness and physical well-being to [the king], my [lo]rd! |
| Obverse [10:17] o 1111– | [Conce]rning (the prince) [NN] about whom the king, my lord, [wrote to me]: "Sit up with him!" — |
| Reverse [1:3] r 22–r 33 | I stay awake with him all night, (but) he makes no progress. |
| Reverse [3:9] r 44–r 99 | The king, my lord, should know that he is ill; the king should not find fault with us later on. I have applied two or three lotions, (but) he has not seen any improvement. |
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-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}ik-ka-ru | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | a—dan-niš a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | {d}AG u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 7 | lik-ru-bu {d}NIN.URTA | |
| 8 | u₃ {d}gu-la ṭu-ub ŠA₃-bi | |
| 9 | ṭu-ub UZU-MEŠ a-na [LUGAL] | |
| 10 | [be]-li₂-ia li-di-[nu] | |
| 11 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣-hi {1}⸢x x⸣+[x] | |
| 12 | [ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ [o] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 13 | [iš-pur-an-ni] | |
| 14 | [ma]-⸢a⸣ di-il-⸢pa⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | is-se-šu₂ | |
| 2 | a-da-lip is-se-šu₂ | |
| 3 | a-na pa-ni la-a il-lak | |
| 4 | LUGAL be-li₂ lu u₂-di | |
| 5 | ki-i ma-ri-ṣu-u₂-ni | |
| 6 | ur-ke-te LUGAL a-na hi-ṭi-ni | |
| 7 | ⸢lu⸣-u la i-šak-kan | |
| 8 | [mar]-hi-ṣi 02 u 03 | |
| 9 | [e]-⸢ta⸣-pa-aš₂ ṭu-bu | |
| 10 | ŠA₃-bi la-a e-mur | |
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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