ABL 0648 (P334449)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0648 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334449 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To the king, my lord: your servant, Nergal-šarran]i. [Good health to the kin]g, [my lord. May Nabû] and Marduk [bless the king], my [lord]. |
| Obverse [5:26] o 66– | [Concern]ing the stars [about which the king wrote to] me, [(saying): "Before] Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Mercury, Mars, Sin, Šamaš, Bel-matati, Sirius, Antares, Belet-balaṭi, the Pleiades, and Išum — before these gods let them make burnt offerings" — They should at the same time make small ones before Nergal, [be]cause of [...]. |
| Reverse [10:11] r 1111–r 1111 | [Tomo]rrow, [in the e]venin[g, ......]. |
| Reverse [11:12] r 1212–r 1212 | (r 12) (Rest destroyed) |
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}{d}U.GUR—MAN-an]-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 4 | [EN-ia {d}AG u {d]}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | [a-na LUGAL EN]-ia | |
| 6 | [lik-ru-bu ina] ⸢UGU⸣ MUL-MEŠ | |
| 7 | [ša LUGAL iš-pur-an]-ni | |
| 8 | [ina IGI] {mul}SAG.ME.GAR | |
| 9 | {mul}dil-bat {mul}UDU.IDIM.SAG.UŠ | |
| 10 | {mul}UDU.IDIM.GUD.UD | |
| 11 | {mul}ṣal-bat-a-nu | |
| 12 | {d}30 {d}UTU | |
| 13 | {d}EN—KUR.KUR | |
| 14 | {mul}GAG.SI.SA₂ | |
| 15 | {mul}BIL.GI | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {mul}be-lit—TI.LA | |
| 2 | MUL.MUL {d}07.BI | |
| 3 | {d}i-šum | |
| 4 | ina IGI DINGIR-MEŠ an-nu-ti | |
| 5 | ma-aq-lu-a-ti | |
| 6 | le-pu-šu | |
| 7 | [TA@v] pa-an | |
| 8 | [x x] ṣa-hu-ra-a-ti | |
| 9 | [ina IGI {d]}U.GUR is-se-niš | |
| 10 | [le]-pu-šu | |
| 11 | [ina ši]-a-ri | |
| 12 | [ki-i] ⸢ba⸣-a-⸢di⸣ [x x] | |
| 13 | [x x] ša [x x x]-i | |
| 14 | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 15 | [x x x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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