ABL 0439 (P334303)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0439 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334303 |
| 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 king, my lord: your servant Adad-šumu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord!] |
| Obverse [5:8] o 66–o 88 | [The prince NN] is doing ve[ry, very] well; the fever has l[eft him]. |
| Obverse [8:12] o 99–o 1212 | The god has stood in the prayer bowl of the king — the king, my lord, should have himself shaved this (very) day. |
| Obverse [12:20] o 1313– | Šamaš-šumu-ukin is doing well. We shall perform (the ritual entitled) "A substitute to Ereškigal" for the crown prince; we need not perform it for Šamaš-šumu-ukin at the same time. What is it that the king, my lord, orders? |
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-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}{d}IM—MU—PAB] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | {[d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL] | |
| 5 | [be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu] | |
| 6 | [a-na x x x x] | |
| 7 | ⸢DI-mu a—dan⸣-[niš a—dan-niš] | |
| 8 | hu-un-ṭu ⸢ur⸣-[ta-am-me-šu₂] | |
| 9 | i-lu ina pu-ut—up-ni pu-ut—up-ni | |
| 10 | ša LUGAL it-te-et-zi | |
| 11 | ina UD-mu an-ni-i LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 12 | {lu₂}ŠU.I-su le-pu-uš | |
| 13 | DI-mu a-na {1}{d}GIŠ.NU₁₁—MU—GI.NA | |
| 14 | pu-u-hi LU₂ a-na {d}EREŠ.KI.GAL | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-na DUMU—MAN DUMU—MAN DUMU—MAN ne₂-pa-aš₂ | |
| 2 | a-na {1}{d}GIŠ.NU₁₁—MU—GI.NA | |
| 3 | is-se-niš la ne₂-pa-aš₂ | |
| 4 | mi-i-nu ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 5 | i-qab-bu-u-ni | |
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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