ABL 0361 (P334237)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0361 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334237 |
| 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 [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | To the 'farmer,' our lord: your servant(s) Adad-šumu-uṣur and Urad-Ea. Good health to the 'farmer,' our lord! May Nabû and Marduk b[le]ss the 'farmer,' our lord! |
| Obverse [8:18] o 99– | We have rites to perform ton[ight]: I shall perform one against "Loss of Flesh," and Urad-Ea another one before Enlil. We shall go to the qirsu. |
| Reverse [4:8] r 55–r 88 | Yesterday I performed the ritual of Bīt [r]i[mki]. I made a burnt-offering and we executed a purification ritual. |
| Reverse [8:14] r 99–r 1414 | I have appointed an exorcist for the chanter who is here, and gave him the following orders: "For six days do likewise, performing the purification ritual after this (fashion)." |
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 {lu₂}ENGAR be-li-ni | |
| 2 | ARAD-<MEŠ>-ka {1}{d}IM—MU—PAB | |
| 3 | {1}ARAD—{d}E₂.A | |
| 4 | lu-u šul-mu | |
| 5 | a-na {lu₂}ENGAR be-li-ni | |
| 6 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 7 | ⸢a⸣-[na {lu₂]}ENGAR be-li-ni | |
| 8 | ⸢lik⸣-[ru]-bu | |
| 9 | dul-⸢li⸣-in-[ni] | |
| 10 | u₂-ma-a ina nu-[bat-ti] | |
| 11 | i-ba-aš-ši | |
| 12 | a-na-ku ša₂ ha-liq-ti UZU | |
| 13 | {1}ARAD—{d}E₂.A | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢ša₂ pa⸣-an {d}EN.LIL₂ | |
| 2 | ne₂-pa-aš | |
| 3 | ina qi-ir-si | |
| 4 | ni-el-lak | |
| 5 | dul-lu ša₂ ⸢E₂—ri⸣-[in-ki] | |
| 6 | it—⸢ti-ma⸣-li it—⸢ti-ma⸣-li e-ta-pa-aš₂ | |
| 7 | ma-qa-lu-tu₂ aq-ṭu-lu | |
| 8 | tak-pir-tu₂ nu-us-se-ti-iq | |
| 9 | a-na {lu₂}UŠ.KU ša₂ an-na-ka | |
| 10 | {lu₂}MAŠ.MAŠ is-se-šu | |
| 11 | ap-ti-qi-id ṭe₃-e-mu | |
| 12 | as-sa-ak-an-šu | |
| 13 | mu-uk 06 UD-me šam-hir₂ | |
| 14 | tak-pir-tu₂ da-at an-ni-e | |
| 15 | tu-še-ta-qa | |
Sources & licences
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