ABL 0450 (P334313)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0450 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334313 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-naṣir. May [Nabû and Marduk greatly] bless [the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [4:7] o 55–o 77 | Aššur-mukin-[pa]lu'a is very well; the king, my lord, can be happy. |
| Obverse [7:20] o 88– | We have begun to perform the rites of the month Elul (VI): "On the 16th you set a table made of tamarisk wood before Sin. At the head of the bed you place a censer of juniper for (the dream god) Zaqiqu. You wash his hands and feet with siderites and cassia. You bind lumps of salt, cassia, juniper, and lumps (taken) from the outer door to the hem of his garment." |
| Reverse [1:8] r 22–r 88 | By the gods of the king, my lord, the baby has not been with Aššur-mukin-palu'a. Until Aššur, Bel and Nabû, your gods, reckoned him among the (grown-up) people, we did not leave a day or month without rituals and rites. |
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}AG—PAB-ir] | |
| 3 | {[d}AG u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU] | |
| 4 | [a-na LUGAL EN-ia a—dan-niš] | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu ⸢DI⸣-[mu a]—⸢dan⸣-[niš] | |
| 6 | a-na {1}aš-šur—mu-kin{[in]}⸢BALA⸣-u-a | |
| 7 | ŠA₃-bi ša LUGAL EN-ia lu [ṭa]-ab-šu₂ | |
| 8 | ne₂-pe-ši ša {iti}KIN UD 16-KAM₂\t | |
| 9 | {giš}BANŠUR bi-ni ana IGI {d}30 tar-kas₂ | |
| 10 | {nig₂}NA {šem}LI a-na {d}ZA.QAR | |
| 11 | ina SAG {giš}NA₂ GAR-an | |
| 12 | ina {u₂}ap₂-ru-ša₂ qul-ku-la-ni | |
| 13 | ŠU.2-šu₂ u GIR₃.2-šu₂ LUH-si | |
| 14 | kur-ba-ni MUN | |
| 15 | {šem}qul-ku-la-ni {šem}LI | |
| 16 | LAG KA₂ ka-mi₃-i | |
| 17 | ina {tug₂}ši-ši-ik-ti-šu₂ tar-kas₂ | |
| 18 | re-e-ši ni-it-ti-ši | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ne₂-ep-pa-aš₂ | |
| 2 | DINGIR-MEŠ ša LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 3 | šum-ma TA@v {1}aš-šur—mu-kin{in}BALA-u-a | |
| 4 | la-ku-u₂ šu-tu-u-ni | |
| 5 | a-du aš-šur EN u {d}AG | |
| 6 | DINGIR-MEŠ-ni-ka TA@v UN-MEŠ | |
| 7 | im-nu-šu-u₂-ni | |
| 8 | UD-mu u ITI la ni-ib-ṭi-li | |
| 9 | ša la dul-lu u ne₂-pe-ši | |
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