ABL 0366 (P334242)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0366 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334242 |
| 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/saa13 · 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 king, my lord: your servant, Nergal-šarrani. Good health to the king, my lord. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [5:25] o 66– | Tomorrow, on the 4th day, in the evening, Nabû and Tašmetu will enter the bedroom. On the 5th day, they will serve (them) the royal banquet. The 'inspector' will attend. They will bring the lion-head (rhyton) and a tallakku-object to the palace. From the 5th to the 10th, the gods will be in the bedroom, and the 'inspector' will sit by. On the 11th, Nabû will go out and stretch his legs. He will go to the game park and kill wild oxen. (Then) he will ascend and take up residence (again) in his dwelling. He will b[less] the king, my lord, and [his] ho[use]. |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | I have written to the king, my lord, that the king, my lord, may know (about it). |
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 EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}U.GUR—MAN-a-ni | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}PA u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ina ši-i-a-ri UD 04-KAM₂ a-na ba-a-di | |
| 7 | {d}PA u₃ {d}taš-me-tum | |
| 8 | ina E₂—{giš}NA₂ E₂—{giš}NA₂ er-ru-bu | |
| 9 | UD 05-KAM ša-ku-su ša LUGAL | |
| 10 | u₂-ša₂-ku-lu {lu₂}ha-za-nu uš-šab | |
| 11 | SAG.DU UR.MAH {giš}tal-la-ak-ku | |
| 12 | a-na E₂.GAL ub-bu-lu | |
| 13 | TA@v ŠA₃ UD 05-KAM | |
| 14 | a-di UD 10-KAM | |
| 15 | [DINGIR]-MEŠ-ni ina E₂—{giš}NA₂ E₂—{giš}NA₂ šu-nu | |
| 16 | u₃ {lu₂}ha-za-nu | |
| 17 | ⸢kam⸣-mu-us | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [UD] 11-KAM₂ {d}AG uṣ-ṣa-a | |
| 2 | GIR₃-šu₂ i-pa-aš₂-šar | |
| 3 | a-na am-ba-as-si il-lak | |
| 4 | ri-ma-a-ni i-du-ak | |
| 5 | el-li ina šub-ti-šu₂ uš-šab | |
| 6 | a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN]-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 7 | u₃ ⸢E₂-šu₂ i-kar-rab⸣ | |
| 8 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia as-sap-ra | |
| 9 | LUGAL be-li₂ lu-u-di | |
Sources & licences
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