ABL 0364 (P334240)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0364 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334240 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To the king, our lord: your servants Adad-šumu-uṣur and Marduk-šakin-šumi. Good health to the king, our lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, our lord! |
| Obverse [7:12] o 88–o 1212 | As to the people about whom the king, our lord, wrote to us: "Can you not specify which (of them) are to come out?" — |
| Obverse [12:24] o 1313– | Those who have not performed (the ritual) should come out tomorrow and perform it. The king, our lord, knows who has performed it and who has not; whence would we know? |
| Reverse [9:12] r 1010–r 1212 | May Bel and Nabû indicate (the right persons) in the shadow of the king, and let them come forth and perform (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-ni | |
| 2 | ARAD-MEŠ-ka {1}{d}IM—MU—PAB | |
| 3 | {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—GAR—MU | |
| 4 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | be-li₂-ni {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ni | |
| 7 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 8 | ina UGU UN-MEŠ ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 9 | be-li₂-ni iš-pur-an-na-ši-ni | |
| 10 | ma la at-tu-nu-u₂ | |
| 11 | tu-šah-ka-ma | |
| 12 | a.a-u₂-ti u₂-ṣu-ni-ni | |
| 13 | ša-ni-ʾu-u₂-ti | |
| 14 | ša la e-pu-šu-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina ši-a-ri lu-ṣu-u-ni | |
| 2 | le-e-pu-šu | |
| 3 | LUGAL be-li₂-ni u₂-da | |
| 4 | a.a-ʾu-u₂-ti | |
| 5 | e-pu-šu-u-ni | |
| 6 | a.a-ʾu-u₂-ti | |
| 7 | la e-pu-šu-u-ni | |
| 8 | a-ni-in-nu | |
| 9 | a.a-ka nu-u₂-da | |
| 10 | ina GIŠ.MI LUGAL {d}EN | |
| 11 | {d}AG lu-ša₂-id-du | |
| 12 | lu-uṣ-ṣu-u-ni | |
| 13 | le-e-pu-šu₂ | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
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