ABL 0338 (P334218)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0338 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334218 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To the king, my lord: your servant Mar-Issar. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! May the great gods bestow long days, well-being and joy upon the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [7:11] o 88–o 1111 | As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "The month Elul (VI) is intercalary; do not perform the ceremonies this month" — |
| Obverse [11:21] o 1212– | Ammu-salam entered Babylon on the evening of the 6th day; the god Nabû had come before him, on the 3rd. The gate was kept open before Bel and Nabû on the 4th, the 5th and the 6th, and sacrifices were performed. |
| Reverse [5:11] r 66–r 1111 | When I saw the king my lord's sealed order, I issued the order: the rest of the ceremonies of Elul (VI) will be performed in the coming month, as the king, my lord, wrote to me. |
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-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}DUMU—{d}15 | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na MAN EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na MAN EN-ia₂ | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu UD-me ar₂-ku-ti | |
| 6 | ṭu-ub UZU u hu-ud ŠA₃-bi | |
| 7 | DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ a-na MAN EN-ia₂ | |
| 8 | liš-ru-ku ša MAN be-li₂ | |
| 9 | iš-pur-an-ni ma-a {iti}KIN | |
| 10 | da-a-ri ITI an-ni-i | |
| 11 | par-ṣi la te-ep-pa-ša₂ | |
| 12 | MI ša UD 06-KAM₂\t {1}am-⸢mu⸣—sa-lam | |
| b.e. | ||
| 13 | a-na KA₂.DINGIR{ki} | |
| 14 | e-tar-ba | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [pa]-na-tu-uš-šu₂ | |
| 2 | UD 03-KAM₂\t {d}PA it-tal-[ka] | |
| 3 | UD 04-KAM₂\t UD 05-KAM₂\t UD 06-KAM₂\t | |
| 4 | KA₂ pa-an EN u {d}PA | |
| 5 | pa-ti-ia {udu}SISKUR-MEŠ | |
| 6 | ep-ša₂ ki-i un-qu | |
| 7 | ša MAN EN-ia₂ a-mur-u-ni | |
| 8 | ṭe₃-e-mu a-sa-kan | |
| 9 | re-eh-ti par-ṣi ša {iti}KIN | |
| 10 | ITI ša e-ra-ban-ni | |
| 11 | ki-i ša MAN be-li₂ | |
| 12 | iš-pur-an-ni ep-pu-šu₂ | |
Sources & licences
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