ABL 0356 (P334232)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0356 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334232 |
| 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 Balasî. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:14] o 66–o 1414 | Concerning the crown prince about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me: "The planet Mars is bright" — (true), Mars will be clothed with brilliance right into the month Iyyar (II); (so) when is it that he (= the crown prince) can come into the presence of the king? |
| Obverse [14:29] o 1515– | When Mars is bright, have we got no profit from it? He will not return to the area of Subartu; he will not go outside, either. There is nothing (wrong) — he will come into the presence of the king within the palace. What is wrong? |
| Reverse [5:10] r 66–r 1010 | If it does not suit the king this month, the moon will complete the day in the month Nisan (I), the beginning of the year. Let him come into the presence of the king in Nisan! |
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 šul-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | EN-ia {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ina UGU DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL | |
| 7 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 8 | ma-a {mul}ṣal-bat-a-nu | |
| 9 | ba-ʾi-il {mul}ṣal-bat-a-nu | |
| 10 | a-du ŠA₃ {iti}GUD ba-ʾi-il | |
| 11 | ša₂-ru-ri na-a-ši | |
| 12 | im—ma-te-em-ma im—ma-te-em-ma šu-u₂ | |
| 13 | ki-i ina pa-an LUGAL | |
| 14 | er-ra-bu-u-ni | |
| 15 | {mul}ṣal-bat-a-nu | |
| 16 | ki-ma ba-ʾi-il | |
| 17 | in-nu-u₂ | |
| 18 | zi-it-ti-in-ni | |
| 19 | ina ŠA₃-bi la-aš₂-šu-u | |
| 20 | a-na ka-aq-qi₂-⸢ri⸣ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 21 | ša {kur}su-bar-ti | |
| 22 | la i-tu-a-ra | |
| r | ||
| 1 | is-se-niš la ina qa-an-ni | |
| 2 | u₂-ṣa la me-me-ni | |
| 3 | ina qa-ab-si E₂.GAL | |
| 4 | ina pa-an LUGAL er-rab | |
| 5 | mi₃-i-nu hi-iṭ-ṭu | |
| 6 | šum-ma ina ŠA₃ ITI an-ni-i-e | |
| 7 | ina IGI LUGAL la ma-hi-ir | |
| 8 | ina {iti}BARAG re-eš ša₂-at-ti | |
| 9 | {d}30 UD-mu u₂-šal-lam | |
| 10 | ina {iti}BARAG ina pa-an LUGAL | |
| 11 | le-ru-ub | |
Sources & licences
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