ABL 0660 (P334459)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0660 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334459 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) |
| Coordinates | 33.0605, 44.2552 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:9] o 1o 1–o 99 | To the king, my lord: your servant Adad-šumu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! May the great gods assign the very best of health to the mother of the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | [When] Bel took away the illness of the king [...] |
| Reverse [2:9] r 3'3'–r 9'9' | [Concerning t]hat [... who] got ill, [...] rituals [against the loss of f]lesh are being performed. We are performing numerous effective counterspells. The king, my lord, can be at ease. |
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 DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | be-li₂-ia {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 6 | lik-ru-bu a-na {mi₂}AMA—LUGAL {mi₂}AMA—LUGAL | |
| 7 | EN-ia DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ | |
| 8 | šul-mu a—dan-niš | |
| 9 | a—dan-niš liš-ku-nu | |
| 10 | [a-ki] {d}EN mur-⸢ṣi⸣ MAN ⸢iš⸣-šur-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x]-mi₃-i | |
| 3' | [x x x x] ⸢im⸣-ra-ṣu-ni | |
| 4' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ʾu ne₂-pe-še | |
| 5' | [ša₂ ha-liq-ti] ⸢UZU⸣ e-pu-šu₂ | |
| 6' | ⸢UŠ₁₁.BUR₂⸣.RU.DA-MEŠ | |
| 7' | SIG₅-MEŠ ma-aʾ-du-ti | |
| 8' | ne₂-ep-pa-aš₂ | |
| 9' | lib-bu ša₂ LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 10' | lu-u DUG₃.GA | |
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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