ABL 0359 (P334235)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0359 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334235 |
| 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 Adad-[šumu-uṣur]. Good health to the k[ing, my lord]! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:9] o 77–o 99 | Concerning the substitute king about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me: "How many days should he sit (on the throne)?" — |
| Obverse [9:19] o 1010– | we waited for a solar eclipse, (but) the eclipse did not take place. Now, if the gods are seen together on the 15th day, he may go to his fate on the 16th. |
| Reverse [3:5] r 44–r 55 | Alternatively, (if) it is agreeable to the king, my lord, let him complete the 100 days. |
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—PAB] | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 6 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | ina UGU LUGAL—pu-u-hi | |
| 8 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 9 | ma-a ki ma-ṣi UD-MEŠ | |
| 10 | lu-ši-ib ina IGI AN.MI | |
| 11 | {d}UTU nu-us-sa-ad-gil₂ | |
| 12 | AN.MI {d}UTU la iš-kun | |
| 13 | u₂-ma-a šum-ma | |
| b.e. | ||
| 14 | UD 15-KAM DINGIR-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-he-iš em-mu-ru | |
| 2 | UD 16-KAM a-na šim-te | |
| 3 | li-il-lik | |
| 4 | u₂-la-a ina IGI LUGAL | |
| 5 | be-li₂-ia ma-hi-ir | |
| 6 | 01-me UD-me lu-ma-al-li | |
Sources & licences
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