ABL 0357 (P334233)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0357 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334233 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, my lord: your servant Adad-šumu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:7] o 55–o 77 | Concerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Why have you not sent an answer to (my) letter?" — |
| Obverse [7:12] o 88–o 1212 | I had to drive to the palace those rams which the chief cook had brought forth for me, and the writing-board was in my house. Now then, I can look at the board and extract the relevant interpretation. |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313 | Concerning the ritual against the earthquake [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | I will read [...]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [To ...] the ritual installations for [Ea] and Asalluhi, [t]hi[s] is the appropriate way. |
| Reverse [2:11] r 3'3'–r 11'11' | They did not tell me about the charge of the house of Urad-Daguna, when I was there; now, however, I have entered (the house) and examined (his) flesh. Is there a child who does not behave in this way (sometimes)? |
| Reverse [11:14] r 12'12'–r 14'14' | Now, if it pleases the king, my lord, I will go and see him (again) tomorrow; I would return for the ritual. |
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}{d}IM—MU—u₂-ṣur | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 6 | iš-pur-an-ni ma-a a-ta-a | |
| 7 | GABA.RI e-gir₂-ti la taš-pur-ra | |
| 8 | ina ŠA₃ E₂.GAL a-na ⸢UDU.NITA₂⸣-MEŠ šu₂-nu | |
| 9 | ša {lu₂}GAL—MU {lu₂}GAL—MU u₂-še-ṣa-an-ni | |
| 10 | u₂-se-li {giš}ZU ina E₂ šu₂-u | |
| 11 | u₂-ma-a an-nu-rig {giš}ZU | |
| 12 | a-mar pi-šir₃-šu a-na-sa-ha | |
| 13 | ina UGU dul-li ša ri-i-bi | |
| r | ||
| 1' | a-sa-si ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | KEŠ₂-MEŠ a-na {⸢d⸣}[E₂.A] | |
| 3' | u {d}ASAR.LU₂.HI ki-⸢i⸣ [an]-⸢ni⸣-[i] | |
| 4' | ta-ri-iṣ ina UGU pi-qit-tu₂ | |
| 5' | ša E₂ {1}ARAD—{d}da-gu-na | |
| 6' | la-a iq-bu-u-ni | |
| 7' | ki-i ina ŠA₃-bi a-na-ku-u-ni | |
| 8' | a-kan-ni e-ta-rab ⸢UZU⸣ | |
| 9' | a-ta-mar-ma i-ba-aš₂-ši-i | |
| 10' | {lu₂}TUR ša₂ ki-i ha-an-ni-i | |
| 11' | la in-ne₂-pa-aš₂-u-ni | |
| 12' | u₂-ma-a šum-ma ina IGI LUGAL | |
| 13' | be-li₂-ia₂ ma-hir ina še-a-ri | |
| 14' | la-al-lik la-a-mur | |
| 15' | a-du dul-li la-as₂-hu-ra | |
Sources & licences
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