ABL 0657 (P334457)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0657 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334457 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To the king, [my lo]rd: your servant Adad-[šumu-uṣur]. Good health to [the king, my] lord! May Aššur, Sin, Šamaš, [Bel], Nabû and Nergal very gr[eatly] bless the [king], my lord! |
| Obverse [7:16] o 88– | The sun did not make an eclipse, it passed by; Venus will reach Spica; the observation of Mercury is impending; there will be heavy rain and thunder. The king, my lord, should know (this). |
| Bottom [0:10] b.e. 16b.e. 16– | Nobody has reminded (the king) about Urad-Gula, the servant of the king, my lord. He is dying of a broken heart, and is shattered (from) falling out of the hands of the king, my lord. The king, my lord, has revived many people. |
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-u DI-mu a-na [LUGAL] | |
| 4 | be-li₂-[ia] | |
| 5 | {d}aš-šur {d}30 {d}UTU {[d}EN] | |
| 6 | {d}AG {d}U.GUR a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL] | |
| 7 | be-li₂-ia a—dan-niš a—[dan-niš] | |
| 8 | lik-ru-bu {d}UTU AN.MI | |
| 9 | la iš-kun us-se-ti-iq | |
| 10 | {mul}dil-bat a-na {mul}AB.SIN₂ | |
| 11 | i-kaš-šad ta-mar-tu | |
| 12 | ša {d}GUD.UD qur-bu | |
| 13 | zi-i-nu dan-nu il-lak | |
| 14 | {d}IM GU₃-šu₂ ŠUB-di | |
| 15 | LUGAL be-li₂ lu-u-di | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16 | ina UGU {1}ARAD—{d}gu-la | |
| 17 | ARAD ša LUGAL EN-ia | |
| r | ||
| 1 | me₂-e-mi-i-ni | |
| 2 | la u₂-šah-si-is | |
| 3 | ina hu-up—lib-ba-te | |
| 4 | i-mu-at ha-ba-šu | |
| 5 | TA@v qa-at LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 6 | ⸢e⸣-li LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 7 | mu-bal-li-ṭu | |
| 8 | ša UN-MEŠ ma-aʾ-du-te | |
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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