ABL 0570 (P334392)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0570 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334392 |
| 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 Urad-Nanaya. The very best of health] to the king, my lord! May Ninurta and [Gula] give happiness and physical well-being to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:12] o 77–o 1212 | The crown prince is doing very well. As I visited the crown prince, the crown prince told me: "All my flesh has become well." The king, my lord, can be [glad]. |
| Obverse [12:26] o 1313– | Subsequently I am sending off (an assortment of) drugs for fumigation. The kanaktu and nikiptu oil which I dispatched should be first dripped [into the ear], [thereafter] let them do the fumig[ation]. As soon as they have fumi[gated], they should repeat (the procedure), drip [the rest of the oil] upo[n (a tuft of) red wool and insert it] into the ear. [It is] very [efficien]t. |
| Reverse [8:13] r 99–r 1313 | At the moment I am busy with cooking the beryl. In the ... of the beryl-stone [......] |
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}ARAD—{d}na-na-a] | |
| 3 | [lu šul-mu ad—dan-niš ad—dan-niš] | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia {d}MAŠ u {d}[gu-la] | |
| 5 | DUG₃-ub lib-bi DUG₃-ub UZU-MEŠ | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia lid-di-nu | |
| 7 | šul-mu ad—dan-niš a-na DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL | |
| 8 | ina pa-an DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL e-tar-ba | |
| 9 | DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL iq-ṭi-bi-ia | |
| 10 | ma-a UZU-MEŠ-ia gab-bu | |
| 11 | i-ṭi-bu-u-ni lib-bu | |
| 12 | ša LUGAL be-li₂-ia ⸢lu⸣ [ṭa-a-ba] | |
| 13 | qu-ta-ri ina ha-⸢ram⸣-[me] | |
| 14 | us-se-bi-la | |
| b.e. | ||
| 15 | I₃ {šem}GIG | |
| 16 | I₃ {šem}{d}MAŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša u₂-še-⸢bil⸣-[an-ni] | |
| 2 | li-ih-ru-⸢pu⸣ [ina ŠA₃ uz-ni] | |
| 3 | lu-na-ti-⸢ku⸣ [i—da-te] [i—da-te] | |
| 4 | lu-qa-at-⸢ti⸣-[ru] | |
| 5 | ki-ma uq-ṭa-⸢te⸣-[ru] | |
| 6 | lu-sa-hi-ru [re-eh-ti I₃.GIŠ] | |
| 7 | lu-na-ti-ku ⸢ina⸣ {[sig₂}tab-re-bi] | |
| 8 | lib-bu uz-ni [liš-ku-nu ṭa-a]-⸢ba⸣ | |
| 9 | ad—dan-niš an-nu-rig ⸢re⸣-eš | |
| 10 | {na₄}bu-ra-al-li ⸢at⸣-ti-ši | |
| 11 | u₂-sab-ši-il i-na | |
| 12 | sih-hi ša {na₄}bur-al-[li] | |
| 13 | [x x]+⸢x x⸣ ti [x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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