ABL 0368 (P334244)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0368 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334244 |
| 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 [0:9] o 1o 1–o 99 | To the queen mother, my 'lord': your servant, Nergal-šarrani. Good health to the queen mother, my 'lord.' May Nabû and Marduk bless the queen mother, my 'lord.' May Tašmetu, whom you revere, take your hands. May you see 1,000 years of kingship for Esarhaddon. |
| Obverse [9:11] o 1010–o 1111 | As for what the queen mother, my 'lord,' wrote to me, saying: "What is going into the ritual?" — |
| Obverse [11:18] o 1212– | These are its constituents: sweet-scented oil, wax, sweet-scented fragrance, myrrh, cannabis, and ṣadīdu-aromatic. [I will] perform it [for a]ll [the ... th]at the queen mother com[manded]. |
| Reverse [2:5] r 33–r 55 | [On the xth] day, they will perform the whole-offerings: one ox, two white sheep, and a duck. |
| Reverse [5:11] r 66–r 1111 | Damqaya, the maid-servant of the queen mother, will not be able to participate in the ritual. (Accordingly,) whomever the queen mother, my 'lord,' designates should open the basket 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 AMA—LUGAL AMA—LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ki {1}{d}U.GUR—MAN-an-ni | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na AMA—MAN AMA—MAN EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na AMA—LUGAL AMA—LUGAL EN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | {d}taš-me-tum ša tap-lah-i-ši-i-ni | |
| 7 | ŠU.2-ki lu ta-aṣ-bat | |
| 8 | 01 lim MU.AN.NA-MEŠ LUGAL-u-tu₂ | |
| 9 | ša {1}{d}aš-šur—PAB—AŠ du-ug-li | |
| 10 | ina UGU ša AMA—MAN AMA—MAN be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 11 | ma-a mi-i-nu ina ŠA₃ dul-li il-lak | |
| 12 | I₃.GIŠ DUG₃.GA GAB.LAL₃ ŠEM.HI.<A>-MEŠ DUG₃.GA-MEŠ | |
| 13 | {šem}ŠEŠ {šem}qu-nu-bu | |
| 14 | ⸢ṣa⸣-di-du an-ni-ʾu-u | |
| 15 | [u₂]-de-e ša dul-li | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x am]—⸢mar⸣ AMA—LUGAL AMA—LUGAL | |
| 2 | taq-[bu-u-ni le]-pu-uš | |
| 3 | UD [x-KAM₂ {udu]}⸢SISKUR⸣-MEŠ šal-ma-⸢a⸣-te | |
| 4 | 01-en GUD u 02 UDU-MEŠ BABBAR-ME | |
| 5 | MUŠEN—GAL-i MUŠEN—GAL-i e-pu-uš | |
| 6 | {mi₂}dam-qa-a-a GEME₂ ša AMA—MAN AMA—MAN | |
| 7 | ina UGU dul-li la mu-qa-ša₂ | |
| 8 | la te-e-rab | |
| 9 | man-nu ša AMA—LUGAL AMA—LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 10 | i-qab-bu-u-ni | |
| 11 | qu-up-pu li-ip-te | |
| 12 | dul-lu le-e-pu-uš | |
Sources & licences
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