ABL 0553 (P334378)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0553 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334378 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To [the king, my lord]: your servant [Nabû-nadin-šumi]. Good health to the king, [my lord]! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:14] o 77– | Concerning the ritual about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, they should perform the exorcistic ritual exactly as the king has done once and twice already. |
| Bottom [1:9] b.e. 1414– | Concerning the injunctions about which the king wrote to me, the king should observe the injunctions carefully. "The king does not eat anything cooked; the king wears the clothes of a nurse." |
| Reverse [5:10] r 66–r 1010 | The day after tomorrow the king will go down to the river; the king will perform his ritual as he has done already once and twice. |
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}PA—SUM—MU] | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-[mu] | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL [EN-ia] | |
| 5 | {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | ina UGU dul-li ša LUGAL | |
| 8 | be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 9 | dul-lu a-ši-pu-ti | |
| 10 | ki-i ša ma-la 02-šu₂ | |
| 11 | LUGAL e-pu-uš-u-ni | |
| 12 | ip—pi-ti-im-ma ip—pi-ti-im-ma | |
| b.e. | ||
| 13 | ⸢le⸣-pu-šu₂ | |
| 14 | ina UGU qi₂-ba-a-ni | |
| 15 | ša LUGAL iš-pur-a-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | qi₂-ba-a-ni LUGAL | |
| 2 | li-ṣur ša i-ša₂-tu₂ | |
| 3 | la-pit-u-ni LUGAL la e-kal | |
| 4 | ku-zip-pi ša ta-ri-ti | |
| 5 | LUGAL ina UGU-šu₂ i-na-aš₂-ši | |
| 6 | a-na šal-ši LUGAL | |
| 7 | ina UGU ID₂ u₂-rad | |
| 8 | dul-lu-šu₂ ki-i | |
| 9 | ša ma-la 02-šu₂ | |
| 10 | e-pu-uš-u-ni | |
| 11 | LUGAL e-pa-aš₂ | |
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
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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