ABL 0362 (P334238)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0362 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334238 |
| 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 'farmer,' our lord]: your servants [Adad-šumu-uṣur] and Marduk-šakin-šumi. [Good] health to our lord! [May Nabû and] Marduk [bles]s our lord! |
| Obverse [5:12] o 66–o 1212 | Concerning the 15th day [about which our lord] said: "Let the substitute [kin]g [g]o to his fate and let me perform my ritual on the 16th day as before" — the 16th is a good day to perform (the ritual). |
| Obverse [12:25] o 1313– | As our fathers did for their lords, and (as) the 'farmer' has already done once and twice, (while) Bel and Nabû provided well-being, just so let us also do now. Why should we wait as if it were not auspicious? |
| Reverse [4:11] r 55–r 1111 | And as even the apprentices say: "It is recorded as favourable in Inbu bēl arhi," just so we shall keep it. Hence the 16th day is among the good days and is good, (whereas) the 17th day is not good. |
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-li₂-ni] | |
| 2 | ARAD-MEŠ-ka {1}{d}IM—MU—PAB] | |
| 3 | {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—GAR—MU | |
| 4 | [lu-u] DI-mu a-na be-li₂-ni | |
| 5 | {[d}PA u {d]}AMAR.UTU a-na be-li₂-ni | |
| 6 | [lik-ru]-⸢bu⸣ ina UGU UD 15-KAM₂\t | |
| 7 | [ša be-li₂-ni] iq-bu-u-ni | |
| 8 | [ma-a] ⸢LUGAL⸣—pu-u-hi a-na šim-ti | |
| 9 | [lil]-⸢li⸣-ki ma-a ana-ku UD 16-KAM₂\t | |
| 10 | [ki-i] ša IGI-tim-ma | |
| 11 | dul-li le-pu-uš | |
| 12 | UD 16-KAM₂\t DUG₃.GA a-na e-pa-a-še | |
| 13 | ki-i ša AD-MEŠ-ni | |
| 14 | a-na EN-MEŠ-šu₂-nu e-pa-šu₂-u-ni | |
| 15 | u₃ {lu₂}ENGAR ma-la 02-šu₂ | |
| 16 | e-pu-šu₂-u-ni | |
| b.e. | ||
| 17 | {d}EN u {d}AG DI-⸢mu⸣ | |
| 18 | iš-ka-nu-ni | |
| 19 | u₂-ma-a | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ki-i ha-an-nim-ma | |
| 2 | ne₂-pu-uš ki ma-ṣi-ma | |
| 3 | la-a ṭa-bu-u-ni | |
| 4 | a-ta-a ni-kat₃-tir | |
| 5 | u₃ ki-i ša {lu₂}TUR-MEŠ-im-ma | |
| 6 | iq-bu-u-ni ma-a a-na {mi₂}ŠE | |
| 7 | ina ŠA₃ GURUN—EN—ar-hi ša₂-ṭir | |
| 8 | a-ni-nu ki-i an-nim-ma | |
| 9 | ina qa-ti-ni nu-ka-a-la | |
| 10 | id—da-a-ti id—da-a-ti UD 16-KAM₂\t | |
| 11 | ina ŠA₃ UD-MEŠ DUG₃.GA-MEŠ | |
| 12 | ṭa-a-ba UD 17-KAM₂\t NU DUG₃.GA | |
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